first name
MADELEINE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 36,774 people named Madeleine, 75.6% reported their origin as White, 10.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.1% 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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Madeleine peaked in 1998, when 1,424 babies got the name.
At least 45,737 babies have been given the name since 1881. 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.
Madeleine by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #606. The largest share of babies named Madeleine, 38.4%, 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 Madeleine is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Madeleine has been most common in New Hampshire (3.7×), Rhode Island (2.9×), and Massachusetts (2.4×), and least common in West Virginia (0.08×).
40,269 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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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Madeleine, most common first.
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