Madelyn

Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Meaning

Madelyn or Madalyn is a feminine first name, a variant of Madeline or Madeleine. Notable people with these names include:

From Wikipedia

Madelyn first appears in the data in 1890 and has been recorded in 135 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2008 with 4,566 babies (rank #64 that year). In 2024 it was given to 3,364 girls (rank #65). Its popularity has been fairly steady recently.

Numerology of Madelyn

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Madelyn yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

11Destiny numberThe visionary (master)Intuitive and inspirational — a heightened 2.Sum of every letter. The overall character a name carries.
4Soul urgeThe builderPractical, steady, gets results through hard work.Sum of the vowels — what's said to drive the heart.
7PersonalityThe seekerIntrospective, analytical, drawn to the unknown.Sum of the consonants — the outer impression.

112,677

Total babies (all years)

135

Years in the data

4,566

Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Girls

Editor’s take on Madelyn

Madelyn's rank peaked well after its count: 4,566 births in 2008, then #58 fifteen years later in 2023 — one of the longer count-to-rank gaps in this batch. The ten-year trend is a mild 22% decline, to 3,364 births in 2024.

This name's history starts in 1890, a decade later than the dataset's opening, and its total US births now reach 112,677 over that span.

Actor Madelyn Cline, whose career began well after the name's own 2008 peak, is the only namesake the enrichment data offers.

— NameCharted, updated 2026-07-21

Famous people named Madelyn

Madelyn Clinefilm actor · b. 1997

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year	Babies	Rank
1890	6	#1,291
1891	8	#1,061
1892	6	#1,382
1893	12	#889
1894	10	#1,039
1895	15	#851
1896	26	#618
1897	20	#708
1898	25	#658
1899	28	#589
1900	39	#550
1901	21	#714
1902	26	#663
1903	47	#469
1904	37	#552
1905	34	#607
1906	57	#457
1907	44	#549
1908	43	#572
1909	69	#452
1910	65	#507
1911	71	#491
1912	125	#417
1913	155	#390
1914	227	#349
1915	209	#416
1916	246	#402
1917	266	#386
1918	275	#395
1919	285	#382
1920	302	#381
1921	331	#367
1922	305	#373
1923	310	#379
1924	315	#385
1925	300	#396
1926	293	#402
1927	265	#423
1928	239	#441
1929	209	#457
1930	188	#486
1931	164	#508
1932	164	#511
1933	138	#543
1934	175	#485
1935	124	#581
1936	113	#621
1937	165	#512
1938	186	#488
1939	211	#461
1940	185	#510
1941	225	#463
1942	278	#436
1943	218	#506
1944	197	#516
1945	174	#558
1946	270	#480
1947	250	#530
1948	244	#530
1949	256	#510
1950	248	#518
1951	223	#576
1952	194	#639
1953	226	#591
1954	207	#636
1955	185	#691
1956	150	#811
1957	178	#747
1958	177	#750
1959	172	#779
1960	142	#872
1961	160	#832
1962	121	#970
1963	114	#999
1964	125	#944
1965	115	#956
1966	92	#1,100
1967	86	#1,144
1968	90	#1,131
1969	95	#1,146
1970	94	#1,204
1971	69	#1,483
1972	97	#1,139
1973	75	#1,345
1974	89	#1,230
1975	83	#1,322
1976	82	#1,324
1977	82	#1,372
1978	98	#1,262
1979	101	#1,265
1980	84	#1,451
1981	70	#1,655
1982	87	#1,410
1983	64	#1,707
1984	51	#2,009
1985	65	#1,748
1986	197	#846
1987	181	#919
1988	170	#976
1989	237	#808
1990	284	#735
1991	351	#637
1992	404	#578
1993	475	#516
1994	561	#455
1995	717	#365
1996	865	#323
1997	1,160	#252
1998	1,928	#162
1999	1,896	#164
2000	2,684	#126
2001	2,844	#121
2002	2,852	#120
2003	2,985	#115
2004	3,006	#111
2005	3,021	#107
2006	2,949	#113
2007	3,216	#104
2008	4,566	#64
2009	4,496	#59
2010	3,621	#76
2011	3,604	#79
2012	3,794	#67
2013	3,940	#68
2014	4,312	#60
2015	4,486	#59
2016	4,240	#62
2017	3,967	#63
2018	3,651	#72
2019	3,580	#72
2020	3,549	#66
2021	3,427	#71
2022	3,722	#60
2023	3,643	#58
2024	3,364	#65