Girl · #70 in 2025

Madelyn

Madelyn: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Madelyn per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2015. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Madelyn has held steady: its share of girls born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 83% of its 2015 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.