Madeline
Also spelled: Madelyn, Madeleine
Usually a girl's name
- Meaning
- From Magdalene, 'woman from Magdala', a Galilee village named from a word for 'tower' Well attested
Some sources add that it absorbed a Germanic name, Madalinde.
- Origin
- French, from Greek
- Popularity
US 2025: #81 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #304
Popularity: US Social Security Administration 2025; Office for National Statistics 2025, England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This name's meaning doesn't link to one of the five elements, so it isn't matched to a chart here.
Sources
- Wiktionary: Madeline
- Wiktionary: Magdalene
- Online Etymology Dictionary: Madeline
- Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, A Dictionary of First Names (OUP, 2006): Madeleine, Oxford Reference summary
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources: Magdalene
- Wikipedia: Madeleine (given name) (cites Kohlheim; Uckelman)