How to pronounce Madeleine?

First Name

French

Female

MAD-uh-lin
uh - rhymes with DUH
lin - rhymes with SIN

"Mad"-uh-"lean"
uh rhymes with DUH

First Name

French

Female

Woman Of Magdala

First name

French/Dutch

Female

Madelaine

First Name

English

Female

Madeline, Madelaine, Madelin, Maddeleine

Usually shortened to Maddie, Maddy or Madi. Pronounced either MAD uh LINE or MAD uh LIN (LIN as in vioLIN). Occasionally pronounced MAD uh LANE, but not that often.

First Name

Swedish

First Name

French

Female

Madeline

THIS SHOULD NOT BE PRONOUNCED Mad- uh -line (rhymes with fine!)

NO NO NO!

Mad-uh-layne (rhymes with "had a pain")

First name

French/Dutch

Female

Madelaine

First Name

French

Female

First Name

French

Madelein, Madelene, Madelen

Woman from Magdala

Wikipedia has audio on how the Swedish eh or e: sounds like in the article "Swedish phonology".

mad eeeeee line

madd eh LEN

First Name

French

Female

Mad-uh-layne

Had-a-pain

First Name

French

Female

Madeline

THIS SHOULD NOT BE PRONOUNCED Mad- uh -line (rhymes with fine!)

NO NO NO!

MAD uh LIN - or
MAD uh LANE

First Name

English

Female

Madeline, Madelaine, Madelin, Maddeleine

Usually shortened to Maddie, Maddy or Madi. Pronounced either MAD uh LINE or MAD uh LIN (LIN as in vioLIN). Occasionally pronounced MAD uh LANE, but not that often.

Mad-el-ayne
Mad-eh-lyn
Maw-dal-yn
Maw-del-ayne

First Name

French/British

Female

Madeleine Madelene Madelyn Madeline

Swedish

má de LEN

No equivalents in English, the last syllable is long.