Entry № 6192 · Italian origin

Madonna Madonna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-DON-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"My lady (Madonna, best-selling female recording artist of all time)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "my lady (madonna, best-selling female recording artist of all time)".

Madonna is the Italian honorific ma donna ("my lady") — historically used as a title for the Virgin Mary.

My lady (Madonna, best-selling female recording artist of all time) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Madonna
Transliteration
Madonna
Pronunciation
/ məˈdɒn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Madonna stands.

Madonna 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.

Madonnas before her.

Real people
Madonna
American pop singer.
born 1958
In fiction
Madonna
Italian Renaissance portraiture.

Names connected to Madonna.

The number behind Madonna.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Madonna reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.