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Maddelyn

Gender
Girl
Say it
MAD-a-lin
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#6,324 for girls

Maddelyn is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “woman of Magdala”. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

What does Maddelyn mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Madelyn, itself a spelling of Madeline, from Magdalene

“woman of Magdala”

Spelling of Madeline, ultimately from the byname of Mary Magdalene.

Meaning borrowed from Madelyn. More on Wiktionary.

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

Maddelyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Maddelyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
6,324th among girls
Babies in 2025
18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 41% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Maddelyn, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,261st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.

Half of all the girls named Maddelyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 7,105 girls in the US were given Maddelyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #21, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.

1995Busiest: 43 in 20172025
Maddelyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
202420#5,959
202317#6,675
202217#6,702
202119#6,170
202032#4,261
201931#4,436
201831#4,457
201743#3,551
201642#3,656
201538#3,914
201439#3,846
201327#5,011
201240#3,853
201135#4,150
201033#4,396
200927#5,225
200835#4,359
200723#5,891
200619#6,590
200519#6,240
200424#5,204
200322#5,414
200217#6,386
200112#8,189
200016#6,481
199914#6,830
199817#5,794
199710#8,329
19969#8,807
19955#13,380

Nicknames for Maddelyn

Names like Maddelyn

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

Other spellings of Maddelyn

Names related to Maddelyn

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Maddelyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maddelyn, updated 20 October 2026.