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Maddeline

Girl · MAD-a-lin · Hebrew

Maddeline is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “woman of Magdala”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

What does Maddeline mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Madeline; English form of Madeleine, from Magdalene

“woman of Magdala”

English form of Madeleine, from Mary Magdalene, follower of Jesus.

Say it
MAD-a-lin

Meaning borrowed from Madeline. More on Wiktionary.

Is Maddeline a girl's or a boy's name?

Maddeline is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Maddeline in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Maddeline, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2008, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

2025 had more girls named Maddeline than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Maddeline in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 7,105 girls in the US were given Maddeline or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #21, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.

1997Busiest: 10 in 20082025
Maddeline in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
20249#10,266
20230–
20225#15,300
20216#13,459
202010#9,541
20199#10,467
20186#13,788
20175#15,898
20167#12,871
20150–
201410#10,124
20136#14,577
20129#11,251
20119#11,175
20109#11,240
200910#10,675
200810#10,802
20075#17,630
20060–
20056#14,495
20047#12,754
20037#12,401
20026#13,589
20016#13,514
20000–
19995#14,403
19986#12,420
19975#13,719

Nicknames for Maddeline

Names like Maddeline

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Maddeline

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