Madonna is the Italian honorific ma donna ("my lady") — historically used as a title for the Virgin Mary. Madonna Louise Ciccone (born 1958) — the best-selling female recording artist of all time with over 300 million records sold. First woman inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Highest-grossing female touring act in music history as of 2023. *Like a Virgin (1984), Material Girl, Vogue (1990), Like a Prayer (1989) — defined MTV-era pop and the visual presentation of female sexuality in mainstream music.
Featured in countless biographies and Andrew Morton's Madonna (2001).
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.
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.