Madeleine
Top 1000
About Madeleine
Sophisticated and sweet, delicate but substantial, Madeleine is the classic French variation of Magdalene.
Once a Top 10 option in France, its popularity waned in the 70s, though it is slowly on the rise again now. In the US, it is outranked by on trend Madelyn and English variant, Madeline, while in the UK, Madeleine is still preferred.
Perfect for parents who like the most "proper" spelling, it does lend itself to multiple pronunciations, from the classic French "Mad-lehn" to the English options of "Mad-uh-lin" and "Mad-uh-line".
Love the elegance of Madeleine but don't want your baby to be lost among all the other Maddys? Lucienne, Genevieve, Marcelline, and Marianne might appeal.
Pronounced mad-uh-LYN; mad-uh-LEN.
As of October 2026, Madeleine ranked #455 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #217 in 1998, Nameberry popularity #340.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #284 | 1,149 | 643.2 |
| 2015 | #303 | 1,067 | 597.7 |
| 2016 | #350 | 956 | 539.5 |
| 2017 | #366 | 848 | 491.2 |
| 2018 | #378 | 832 | 489.1 |
| 2019 | #369 | 864 | 514.8 |
| 2020 | #398 | 784 | 485 |
| 2021 | #382 | 819 | 499.1 |
| 2022 | #382 | 820 | 500 |
| 2023 | #444 | 689 | 429.4 |
| 2024 | #437 | 707 | 436.4 |
| 2025 | #455 | 679 | 422.5 |
World rankings
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Madeleine on lists
Famous Madeleines
- Madeleine M. Stowe
American actress
- Madeleine Albright (born Marie Jana Korbel)
American politician
- Madeleine L'Engle
American children's novelist
- Madeleine Peyroux
American jazz singer
- Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine
Princess of Sweden
- Madeleine Polland
Irish novelist
- (Edith) Madeleine Carroll
English actress
- Madeleine Mary Zeien Bordallo
U.S. Delegate from Guam
- Madeleine de Scudery
French novelist
- Madeleine May Kunin
American politician, 77th governor of Vermont
- Madeleine (Talmage Force) Astor
Titanic survivor and widow of American millionaire John Jacob Astor IV
- Madeleine Béjart
French actress and director
- Madeleine de Roybon d'Allonne
early settler in New France, Canada
- Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux
French feminist author
- Madeleine Vionnet
French fashion designer who invented the bias cut
- Madeleine Mantock
English actress
- Madeleine Grace "Maddy" McGraw
American child actress
- Madeleine Beth "Maddie" McCann (b. 2003)
3 year old British girl missing since 2007
- Madeleine Pizzarelli
daughter of singers John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey
- Madeleine Daly (b. 1995)
daughter of actress Madeleine Potter
- Madeleine Barbara Rhys (b. 2006)
daughter of actor Paul Rhys and Katherine Fugate
- Madeleine Colbert
daughter of comedian Stephen Colbert
Madeleine in pop culture
- Madeleine Cahill
character in "39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers"
- Madeleine Forestier
character in "Bel Ami" by Guy de Maupassant
- Madeleine "Maddy" Osborne
character in Australian soap "Home And Away"
- Madeleine Smith
main character in 1950 movie "Madeleine"
- Madeleine Elster
character in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo"
- "Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists
" novel by Hope Mirrlees
- Madeleine Gotto
character on animated series "Mona the Vampire"
- Madeleine Hanna
main character in "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides
- "Madeleine"
song by the Backstreet Boys
- "Madeleine
" operetta by Victor Herbert
- Madeleine
a small French sponge cake
- Madeleine
character in Richard Strauss' opera "Capriccio"
- Madeleine "Maddie" Masterson
one of the children from the "School of Fear" trilogy by Gitty Daneshvari
- Madeleine Tully
main character in "The Colours of Madeleine" trilogy by Jaclyn Moriarty
- Madeleine
song by the band Blossoms
- Madeleine Spencer
character on TV's Psych
- Madeleine Swann
character in "Spectre" (2015) movie