Maddax
Maddax was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,030 among boys’ names; 582 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maddax by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maddax?
#6,030 among boys’ names, 2025
Maddax fell from #3,407 in 2015 to #6,030 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.2 to 8.8 per million.
38 babies in 2015, the peak
Maddax peaked in 2015, when 38 babies were given it (33 boys, #3,407 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,030 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,525 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,557 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,245 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,180 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,107 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,310 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,420 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,419 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,943 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,407 | 17.2 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,137 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,714 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,332 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,664 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,065 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,249 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,613 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,199 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,974 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,003 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,333 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,370 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maddax a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 582 Americans recorded as Maddax, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maddax: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maddax, and how old are they?
An estimated 577 Americans named Maddax and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 470 people named Maddax (55 women and girls, 415 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,903 babies since 1880, Maddax is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 1,974 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maddax
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maddax and names like it
- Compare Maddax and MaddoxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Maddax.
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