Madilyn

What Madilyn means

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

Editor’s note 662 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Madilyn?

US: Falling: down from #316 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2012, when 1,101 girls got the name (#287 that year). First in the US records in 1924.

How common

• About 1 in 2,428 baby girls in the US 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 WV (1.38 per 1,000 girls), OK (1.22 per 1,000 girls), SC (1.2 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Madilyn is #464 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 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 Madilyn were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Madelyn3,362 US · 47 E&W
• Madelynn573 US
• Madilynn315 US
• Madalyn273 US · 3 E&W
• Madalynn161 US
• Madelyne81 US
• Madelin74 US
• Maddilyn24 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 Madilyn

Girls

• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Olivia#1“olive; olive branch”^*
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Parker#102From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Madilyn’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.