girls:
9.5k births since 1897
#1652 (71st percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1897
#2754 (64th percentile)
The name Madonna is the #2,754 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,545 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 64.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,652 (71.1% percentile) for all time with 9,545 births since 1897.
Madonna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (first recorded for girls in 1897). Birth data for Madonna is available in 123 out of the 127 years between 1897 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, Madonna reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 27.9% percentile (ranked #525) with 105 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 136 births per million (ranked 23.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Madonna ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Madonna".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Madonna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.5% confident that Madonna is pronounced as muh-DAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-DAW-nuh, at 22.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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