girls:
109.2k births since 1890
#344 (94th percentile)
boys:
43 births since 2002
#4543 (1st percentile)
overall:
109.3k births since 1890
#635 (92nd percentile)
The name Madelyn is the #635 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 109,284 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 91.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #344 (94.0% percentile) for all time with 109,241 births since 1890. For boys, it ranks #4,543 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 2002.
Madelyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for girls and 2002 for boys).
The name Madelyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Madelyn reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 94.2% percentile (ranked #56) with 2,076 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 2,299 births per million (ranked 94.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Madelyn ranks #56 for girls (94.2% percentile) with 2,076 births per million, which is 90.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Madelyn reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #838) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Madelyn".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Madelyn", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 63 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Madeline" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Madeline..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Madelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.7% confident that Madelyn is pronounced as MA-duh-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAD-lihn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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