A modern variant of Madeline, Madilyn goes back to the name Magdalene. This name means ‘high tower’ or also ‘woman from Magdala’. Magdala was a town located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in ancient Palestine.
Madilyn is a female first name.
The name Madilyn isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Madilyn ranks 297. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Madilyn. In the entire USA, approximately 20,222 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Madilyn. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Madilyn is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Madilyn cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #275 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2008. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Madilyn, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Madilyn seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Madilyn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
970 babies were named Madilyn in 2022 - that's 1 in 152,816 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Madilyn ranked 302 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Madilyn has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Madilyn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Madilyn, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Madilyn sounds like this:
