Mandolin
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.
Mandolin by the numbers
Mandolin was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 12 babies in 1995, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Mandolin
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 Mandolin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Madelinwoman from magdala; variant of madeline42 in the US (2017)
- Madylinof Magdala; a respelling of Madeline18 in the US (2017)
- Maydelin12 in the US (2017)
- Madolyn6 in the US (2017)
- Madelinefrom Magdala; a form of Magdalene2,938 in the US (2017)
- Magnoliamagnolia flower; named after botanist Magnol808 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Mandolin
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