How Many People Are Named Madelon?

700

people named Madelon are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 488,264 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,787 babies named Madelon in Social Security records from 1897 to 2017, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#13,319

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#7,592

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Peak Year

1920

53 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Dutch
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Dutch form of MAGDALENE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Madelon in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Madelon alive today is about 59 years old, and 61% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 30 and 79 in 2025.

Under 30 171
24.4%
30 to 59 101
14.4%
60 and over 428
61.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Madelon first appears in the records in 1897 and was given most often in 1920, to 53 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2017.

Babies given the name each year, 1897 to 2017

🏆 Rank History

Madelon has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,025, in 1920.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#1,025 (1920)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,314 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Madelon alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Madelon were born in New York than in any other state: about 40 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Madelon was given about 4.1 times as often in New York.

New York 40
Ohio 13
Michigan 11
California 8
Illinois 5

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