Madden
Madden is given to both girls and boys: 168 girls and 402 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,331 among girls’ names and #676 among boys’, #1,064 among all names counting both); 9,233 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,160 Americans named Madden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madden?
#676 among boys’ names, 2025
Madden fell from #611 in 2015 to #676 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.23 to 0.24 per 1,000.
570 babies in 2025, the peak
Madden peaked in 2025, when 570 babies were given it (402 boys, #676 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 393 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,331 | 402 | #676 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,814 | 393 | #691 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,979 | 426 | #646 |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,863 | 419 | #657 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,146 | 291 | #822 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,808 | 287 | #811 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,203 | 294 | #788 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,275 | 299 | #777 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,521 | 354 | #697 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,206 | 377 | #678 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,684 | 439 | #611 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,062 | 417 | #629 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,992 | 410 | #612 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,672 | 471 | #553 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,821 | 470 | #544 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,959 | 413 | #604 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,558 | 461 | #573 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,498 | 399 | #621 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,198 | 266 | #807 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,073 | 180 | #1,022 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,047 | 97 | #1,493 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,478 | 44 | #2,516 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,034 | 28 | #3,328 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,289 | 13 | #5,600 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,644 | 9 | #7,275 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,596 | 12 | #5,769 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,861 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,644 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,399 | 6 | #8,839 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Madden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,233 Americans recorded as Madden, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Madden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madden, and how old are they?
9,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,233 Americans ever recorded as Madden. The median Madden alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 5,974 people named Madden (954 women and girls, 5,020 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,750 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Madden born?
The states with the most babies named Madden are Texas, California and Florida, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 41 | #924 | 0.8× |
| California | 30 | #982 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 25 | #795 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #731 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 21 | #613 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 21 | #494 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 20 | #473 | 0.9× |
| Utah | 18 | #281 | 2.3× |
| Michigan | 18 | #664 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 18 | #583 | 0.9× |
Where Madden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madden is most over-represented in Utah: since 1997 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Madden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 9,640 babies since 1880, Madden is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 570 of their 578 babies (99%), again the 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 Madden
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 Madden and names like it
- Compare Madden and MaddonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMadden peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madden since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Madden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Madden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.