girls:
22.2k births since 1924
#957 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.2k births since 1924
#1704 (78th percentile)
The name Madilyn is the #1,704 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,203 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 78.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #957 (83.3% percentile) for all time with 22,203 births since 1924.
Madilyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (first recorded for girls in 1924). Birth data for Madilyn is available in 56 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Madilyn reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 71.4% percentile (ranked #282) with 561 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 567 births per million (ranked 70.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Madilyn ranks #337 for girls (64.5% percentile) with 481 births per million, which is 84.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Madilyn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Madilyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Madilyn is pronounced as MA-dih-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-duh-lihn, at 29.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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