Fun Facts About the Name Madilynn
- More than 11 thousand babies named Madilynn: U.S. records list 11,421 babies given the name Madilynn from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Madilynn Mean?
Madilynn is a modern English spelling of Madelyn, a variant of Madeline, and its established meaning is 'woman from Magdala' or 'of Magdala.' The source is the byname Magdalene, from Greek Magdalēnē, used in the New Testament for Mary of Magdala. Magdala was a town on the Sea of Galilee. The place name is usually connected with Hebrew migdal, 'tower,' but that is the probable sense of the place name, not a separate meaning of the personal name. The literal sense is therefore geographic: a woman from Magdala. Symbolic readings such as 'high tower' are later interpretations of migdal rather than the name's basic etymology. The spelling Madilynn does not change this inheritance; the y and final double n are modern English spelling choices.
Madilynn Name History & Origins
The name behind Madilynn goes back to the byname Magdalene. In the Gospels, Mary is called Magdalēnē in Greek, a byname linking her with Magdala, a town on the Sea of Galilee. Latin Christians called her Maria Magdalena, and devotion to Mary Magdalene spread widely in medieval Europe. That devotion helped establish Magdalena and its vernacular forms as given names: Madeleine in French, Maddalena in Italian, Magdalena in Spanish and German, and Magdalene or Maudlin in older English.
English Madeline and Madelyn are adaptations of French Madeleine. Madelyn is a respelling of Madeline, and Madilynn is a further modern respelling, using y in the final syllable and a doubled final n. Its history is mainly orthographic: it shares the pronunciation and inheritance of Madelyn rather than coming from a separate saint, language, or word. The spelling is used in English-speaking countries as a given name, but it has no independent etymology of its own.
How Popular is the Name Madilynn?
Madilynn recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2014. Its best rank was #479 in 2014.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #860 | 315 | 0.0196% |
| 2024 | #792 | 355 | 0.0220% |
| 2023 | #728 | 387 | 0.0241% |
| 2022 | #567 | 530 | 0.0323% |
| 2021 | #529 | 583 | 0.0356% |
| 2020 | #508 | 598 | 0.0370% |
| 2019 | #529 | 578 | 0.0345% |
| 2018 | #559 | 557 | 0.0328% |
| 2017 | #554 | 557 | 0.0323% |
| 2016 | #520 | 598 | 0.0338% |
| 2015 | #499 | 639 | 0.0358% |
| 2014 | #479 | 656 | 0.0367% |
| 2013 | #526 | 567 | 0.0323% |
| 2012 | #559 | 528 | 0.0300% |
| 2011 | #547 | 533 | 0.0303% |
| 2010 | #562 | 518 | 0.0291% |
| 2009 | #554 | 552 | 0.0301% |
| 2008 | #667 | 461 | 0.0244% |
| 2007 | #805 | 356 | 0.0185% |
| 2006 | #1,007 | 256 | 0.0135% |
| 2005 | #1,143 | 204 | 0.0110% |
| 2004 | #1,200 | 187 | 0.0102% |
| 2003 | #1,158 | 187 | 0.0102% |
| 2002 | #1,256 | 158 | 0.0088% |
| 2001 | #1,624 | 113 | 0.0063% |
| 2000 | #1,554 | 115 | 0.0063% |
| 1999 | #1,728 | 94 | 0.0053% |
| 1998 | #2,114 | 69 | 0.0039% |
| 1997 | #2,719 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 1996 | #3,478 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 1995 | #4,048 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 1994 | #5,885 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1993 | #8,441 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1992 | #12,697 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1991 | #8,348 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #9,799 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1989 | #10,385 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1987 | #8,440 | 8 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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