Given name
Madoline
Madoline is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “one who is accomplished with the stringed instrument.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is accomplished with the stringed instrument.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Madoline through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 0 boys · 61 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1944. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1915.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Madoline’s family of names
In English usage, Madoline has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Magdalena. Madoline has a related form in Madeleine. Madoline has a related form in Mandalyn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Madeleinevariant · English
- Mandolynvariant
- Mandolinvariant
- Mandalynnvariant
- Mandalynvariant
- Mandalinvariant
- Mandolynnevariant
- Mandellynvariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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