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How popular is the name Madelaine?

Births per year, rank history and how many Madelaines are alive today.

Madelaine (female) last appeared in the England and Wales name records in 2021 (ranked 5581st); fewer than three babies a year have been given the name since. The name peaked in 2002, when 114 babies were given the name, the 316th most popular that year.

The Madelaine you are most likely to meet is around 23 years old. Half of all Madelaines born in England and Wales are between 22 and 32, and there are at least 1,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Madelaine - on average, only one in every 197 such rooms contains a Madelaine.

How many babies are named Madelaine each year?

Where does Madelaine rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.