Madalynn
- Pronunciation
- [Ma-da-lynn]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Woman From Magdala. Variant Of Madeleine.
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Madalynn
Madalynn is a contemporary respelling of Madeleine, the French form of Magdalene, ultimately meaning "woman from Magdala," a town on the Sea of Galilee. The double-n, -ynn ending gives this ancient Biblical name a thoroughly modern, American silhouette, trading old-world spelling for the soft, lyrical look favored across the 2000s while keeping the familiar, gentle sound intact.
The name sits within a wide family of forms. Recorded variants include Madalene, Madalyn, Madelaine, Madeleine, Madelene, Madelon, and Madelynn, giving parents an unusually broad palette of spellings for the same three-syllable sound and its familiar nicknames such as Maddie. That abundance of forms is itself a marker of just how fashionable the name's sound became.
Madalynn first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for girls in 2001 and reached its peak in 2009 at rank #544. It then eased downward, last appearing in the top-1000 in 2020 at #989, after a run that recorded 7,498 girls in total; it had stood at #907 as recently as 2018. Its arc reflects the broader cresting and gentle decline of the elaborate Madeline respellings that defined a memorable stretch of early-2000s American naming, when creative spelling was very much in vogue.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Madalynn
US Popularity History (2001–2020)
Annual US births named Madalynn by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2009 with 557 girls named Madalynn (girl rank #544 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2020, ranked #989 for girls (258 US births). That's 445 places below its 2009 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Madalynn Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Madalynn the strongest states are West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia | #268 | 44 |
| 2 | Kentucky | #454 | 97 |
| 3 | Mississippi | #580 | 22 |
| 4 | Iowa | #588 | 17 |
| 5 | Arkansas | #591 | 22 |
| 6 | Indiana | #606 | 92 |
| 7 | South Carolina | #614 | 30 |
| 8 | Alabama | #620 | 51 |
| 9 | Missouri | #645 | 51 |
| 10 | Oregon | #677 | 16 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia | #873 | 46 |
| 2 | Texas | #847 | 252 |
| 3 | Pennsylvania | #822 | 100 |
| 4 | Louisiana | #816 | 30 |
| 5 | North Carolina | #813 | 69 |
| 6 | Michigan | #809 | 87 |
| 7 | Maryland | #774 | 21 |
| 8 | Tennessee | #755 | 90 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | #749 | 17 |
| 10 | Wisconsin | #733 | 35 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Madalynn in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madalene | Woman From Magdala. Variant Of Madeleine. Madeleine: (English/French) Woman From Magdala. | Female | French |
| Madalyn | From The Tower | Female | Hebrew |
| Madelaine | From The Tower | Female | Hebrew |
| Madeleine | Tower | Female | French |
| Madelene | From The Tower | Female | Hebrew |
| Madelon | Woman From Magdala. Variant Of Madeleine. | Female | French |
| Madelynn | Woman From Magdala. Variant Of Madeleine. | Female | Spanish |
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Compare Madalynn to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Madalynn against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).