girls:
1.7k births since 1896
#4030 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1896
#6008 (22nd percentile)
The name Madolyn is the #6,008 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,743 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 22.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,030 (29.5% percentile) for all time with 1,743 births since 1896.
Madolyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (first recorded for girls in 1896). Birth data for Madolyn is available in 105 out of the 128 years between 1896 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, Madolyn reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #565) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 38 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Madolyn ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 9.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Madolyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Madolyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.0% confident that Madolyn is pronounced as MA-duh-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-duh-LIHN, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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