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The first name 
Madonna

Madonna is a first name for girls.

Madonna – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Madonna has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Madonna. That means that a girl named Madonna is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Madonna.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Madonna

Madonna -
a special name with a long history

Madonna is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2022, where the name Madonna was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Madonna and were born in the USA in 2022 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Madonna even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1933, it ranked on position 501 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Madonna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Madonna has 7 letters 
and begins with an M

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 Madonna 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Madonna

If your name is Madonna 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...

This is how you spell the name Madonna

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Madonna, you can simply say:

Mouse

Apple

Dinosaur

Orange

Nut

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Madonna is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Madonna in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Madonna

Madonna

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Madonna

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Madonna is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
A
D
O
N
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Madonna

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.

M
A
D
O
N
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Madonna sounds like this: