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Baby name
Madeleine
Girl
Origin of the name
Madeleine comes from the name of Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus in the Gospels. The surname Magdalene means “from Magdala,” the town of Galilee she came from.
Classic name
45,722births since 1880
1990sgeneration
No. 217rank at its peak, in 1998
Where babies named Madeleine are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Madeleine is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Madeleine is most common in New Hampshire (3.7 times), Rhode Island (2.9) and Massachusetts (2.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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