Gender: Girl
Meaning: Woman of Magdala, tower
Origin: English (variant)
Popularity: Ranked #420 in 2024 with 739 babies born.
History: Madilyn surged in the 2010s-2020s as a creative spelling of Madeline that combines the Madison craze with the Madeline literary heritage. It's a distinctly American hybrid — the Splash mermaid meets the Parisian schoolgirl. Madilyn represents the American talent for merging pop culture references into a single name.
Name length: 7 letters
How common is Madilyn? About 1 in 4,504 babies born in 2024 were named Madilyn, or roughly 2 per day in the United States.
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