How Many People Are Named Madilyn?

23,407

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

About 1 in 14,601 people in the US has this name

Based on 23,632 babies named Madilyn in Social Security records from 1924 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,482

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#790

See the top 100

Peak Year

2008

1,169 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: MAD-ə-lin
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of MADELINE.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Madilyn in English. Counting Madilyn and these spellings together, about 348,883 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

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

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Madilyn alive today is about 13 years old, and 98% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 18 in 2025.

Under 30 22,948
98%
30 to 59 410
1.8%
60 and over 50
0.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Madilyn first appears in the records in 1924 and was given most often in 2008, to 1,169 babies. In 2025, 662 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1924 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Madilyn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #287, in 2012. In 2025 it ranked #464.

Girls
Rank in 2025#464
Best rank#287 (2012)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#315 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Madilyn were born in Texas than in any other state: about 2,394 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Madilyn was given 2.4 times as often in West Virginia, 2.2 times in Arkansas and 2 times in Mississippi.

Texas 2,394
California 1,785
Ohio 1,051
Illinois 885
Florida 882
North Carolina 845
Michigan 839
Pennsylvania 828
Georgia 781
Tennessee 726
Indiana 707
Missouri 619
New York 579
Alabama 572
Wisconsin 545
Virginia 526
Kentucky 526
Washington 496
Minnesota 490
Utah 473
Oklahoma 467
Arizona 465
Louisiana 411
Arkansas 382
South Carolina 368
Colorado 357
Mississippi 346
Kansas 326
Iowa 311
Oregon 275
Maryland 274
Massachusetts 249
West Virginia 233
Nebraska 195
New Jersey 193
Idaho 177
Nevada 155
Connecticut 91
Maine 89
North Dakota 65
New Hampshire 63
Alaska 57
South Dakota 55
New Mexico 53
Montana 45
Wyoming 10
Delaware 5

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