Madolyn
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Madolyn by the numbers
Madolyn was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 45 babies in 1921, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Madolyn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Madolyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Madelynof Magdala; tower3,944 in the US (2017)
- Madilynof Magdala; tower; a modern respelling of Madelyn946 in the US (2017)
- Madalynwoman from magdala; a form of Magdalene448 in the US (2017)
- Madylynwoman from magdala; a respelling of madeline or magdalene9 in the US (2017)
- Madlynwoman from magdala; a form of Madeline7 in the US (2017)
- Madelynnwoman of Magdala; a form of Magdalene685 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Madolyn
Names that are said the same way as Madolyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Madelinefrom Magdala; a form of Magdalene2,938 in the US (2017)
- Madeleineof Magdala; woman of Magdala179 in England and Wales (2025)
- Madalynnof magdala; a modern respelling of Madeline330 in the US (2017)
- Maddilynyouthful; a modern respelling of Madeline84 in the US (2017)
- Madelynewoman from magdala; a form of Madeline70 in the US (2017)
- Maddilynnwoman from Magdala; a modern respelling of Madelynn or Magdalene54 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Madolyn
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