Madeline

What Madeline means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Madeline yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #81 vs #304 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Madeline?

US: Rising: up from #91 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #377 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1998, when 5,869 girls got the name (#50 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 521 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,759 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,491 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (8.63 per 1,000 girls), NH (7.37 per 1,000 girls), RI (4.89 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Madeline is #81 in the US and #304 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Madeline were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Madelyn3,362 US · 47 E&W
• Madeleine679 US · 179 E&W
• Madelynn573 US
• Madelyne81 US
• Madelin74 US
• Madelaine24 US
• Madelynne23 US
• Madaline20 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Madeline

Girls

• Giselle#382French, meaning “pledge”^*
• Isabelle#166Variant of Elizabeth, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Celeste#188“heavenly”^*
• Gabrielle#632Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #204 in 2015, #632 in 2025
• Claire#68Variant of Clare, meaning “bright, shining, clear”^*
• Jenna#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025

For a brother

• Austin#113“majestic”^*
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*
• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Joe#991Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1936, with 8,023 babies; 230 in 2025
• Andre#368Form of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Madeline’s. Rank is US 2025.