as a First Name
From an Italian title of the Virgin Mary (literally ‘my lady’), applied to countless Renaissance paintings of a beautiful young woman (with and without an infant), representing the mother of Christ. Its use as a given name is a fairly recent phenomenon, arising among Americans of Italian descent. Since the 1980s, the name has been particularly associated with the American pop star Madonna Ciccone (b. 1958).
| 2,021st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,509
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Madonna per capita
- 1933
- marked the height of its popularity
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