first name
MADALYN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 17,973 people named Madalyn, 82.2% reported their origin as White, 9.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Madalyn peaked in 2008, when 1,144 babies got the name.
At least 23,222 babies have been given the name since 1899. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Madalyn by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #705. The largest share of babies named Madalyn, 55.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Madalyn is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Madalyn has been most common in Wisconsin (1.8×), Indiana (1.7×), and Minnesota (1.5×), and least common in Connecticut (0.29×).
19,502 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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