Names That Mean Magdala

Magdalini

There are many ways to spell Madeline — eight currently rank in the Top 1000, and many more make the extended charts — but Maddalin is a truly unique variation. It has never been given to more than four baby girls in a single year.<br></br>Regardless of what spelling you use, however, when you combine all the variations together, names from the Madeline family are given to nearly 10,000 babies every year in the US. Whatever spin you put on it then, there will still be plenty of other Maddys running round the playgrounds in the next few years, making it feel more like a Top 10 option than it really is. <br></br> Not necessarily a bad thing - it is a great name after all with plenty of elegance, sweetness and spirit. It's just worth remembering that tweaking the spelling won't make it stand out when its called.


Maddalin

Matleena is a contraction of Magdaleena, the Finnish variation of the biblical Magdalene.

Matleena

A pretty and lively Slavic diminutive of Helena or Magdalena, long used as a standalone. In Czechia, it was a Top 10 choice from 1960 to 1991, and it still ranks highly there today.

Lenka

The Finnish form of Magdalene, sometimes contracted as Matleena.