Entry № 6163 · English origin

Madelyn Madelyn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAD-eh-lin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"From Magdala (a top-100 US baby name; Madelyn Cline, Outer Banks)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "from magdala (a top-100 us baby name; madelyn cline, outer banks)".

Madelyn is the American variant spelling of Madeline / Madeleine — from the Hebrew place name Magdala (the Galilean hometown of Mary Magdalene). Madelyn Hammond — Sweet Magnolias on Netflix. Madelyn Lynn — Insidious film series character. Madelyn Knight is the doll name of one of the American Girl historical figures (the 1944 character).

From Magdala (a top-100 US baby name; Madelyn Cline, Outer Banks) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Madelyn
Transliteration
Madelyn
Pronunciation
/ ˈmæd.ə.lɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Madelyn stands.

Madelyn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Madelyns before her.

Real people
Madelyn Cline
American actress (Outer Banks).
born 1997
Madelyn Pugh Davis
American TV writer (I Love Lucy).
1921 – 2011
In fiction
Sarah Cameron
Outer Banks.
2020
Madelyn Stillwell
The Boys.
2019

Names connected to Madelyn.

The number behind Madelyn.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Madelyn reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.