Madaline
Madaline is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. Its best rank was 620th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 310.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918114 births
- Best rank
- #620in 1906
- Since 1885
- 4,970people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,970 girls have been named Madaline in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 114 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Madaline | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 126 | |
| 1900s | 255 | |
| 1910s | 701 | |
| 1920s | 794 | |
| 1930s | 364 | |
| 1940s | 330 | |
| 1950s | 255 | |
| 1960s | 144 | |
| 1970s | 101 | |
| 1980s | 97 | |
| 1990s | 430 | |
| 2000s | 765 | |
| 2010s | 478 | |
| 2020s | 125 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Madaline was the 669th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Madaline
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madalenepeak 1919
- Bethelpeak 1922
- Jewelpeak 1920
- Madelenepeak 1921
- Rubiepeak 1921
- Rubypeak 1924
- Faepeak 1916
- Adellepeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.