Madden — #689 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Madden

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,279 babies named Madden between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Madden currently holds the #689 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 471 babies received it in a single year. Madden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,383 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Madden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,944 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Madden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 761 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Madden in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Madden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,279 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.