Madeline

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Madeleine in FR France, SE Sweden, BE Belgium and 5 more, מדלין in IL Israel, IQ Iraq, MA Morocco, Мадлен in RU Russia, FI Finland and Madlen in CZ Czechia, BG Bulgaria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Madeline is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name143K records spelled Madeline12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Ecuador

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Mádeline, Madelíne, Mädeline, Mädëlïnë, Mádélíné

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Madeline is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Variant of Madeleine, common especially in Ireland.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In German, weibl. Vom., englische ['maedlin]

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Madeline Lee Gilfordb. 1923USAmerican actress, producer and activist (1923–2008)
• Yvonne Brillb. 1924CAnot in their usual nameCanadian scientist (1924-2013)
• Madeline Kahnb. 1942USAmerican actress, singer (1942-1999)
• Madeline Manningb. 1948USAmerican athletics competitor
• Madeline Smithb. 1949GBBritish actress
• Madeline Millerb. 1978USAmerican writer (born 1978)
• Madeline Zimab. 1985USAmerican actress, writer, and director (born 1985)
• Madeline Brewerb. 1992USAmerican actress
• Madelaine Petschb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and YouTuber
• Madeline Carrollb. 1996USAmerican actress (born 1996)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 924 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Madeline?

We estimate roughly 483 thousand people bear Madeline (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Madeline have the most bearers?

We estimate about 306 thousand people bear Madeline in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled madeleine.

Where is Madeline most common?

Madeline is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 221 people carrying it.

How common is Madeline compared with other names?

In France, Madeline is the 88th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Madeline a male or female name?

Madeline is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Madeline mean?

Recorded meaning: Form of Magdalen, ‘of Magdala’; chiefly used in Ireland; from St Mary Magdalen.