Maddie
Maddie was given to 282 girls in 2025, #927 among girls’ names; 6,253 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,860 Americans named Maddie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maddie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maddie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maddie is “a diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.”
Also “a diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.”
Clipping + -ie.
/ˈmædi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maddie?
#927 among girls’ names, 2025
Maddie rose from #1,043 in 2015 to #927 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 0.18 per 1,000.
328 babies in 2023, the peak
Maddie peaked in 2023, when 328 girls were given it, #835 among girls’ names. The 282 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 282 | #927 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 321 | #842 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 328 | #835 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 289 | #938 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 242 | #1,042 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 202 | #1,162 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 213 | #1,138 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 214 | #1,143 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 209 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 248 | #1,053 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 255 | #1,043 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 221 | #1,136 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 193 | #1,241 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,262 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,269 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 173 | #1,355 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 218 | #1,157 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 198 | #1,264 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,436 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,501 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 147 | #1,448 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 141 | #1,449 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,480 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,740 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 121 | #1,536 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 113 | #1,572 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,293 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,381 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,411 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,908 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,402 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,180 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,317 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,584 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,220 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,191 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,784 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,287 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,766 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,157 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,394 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,678 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,022 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,196 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,382 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,983 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,072 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,110 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,121 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,450 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,046 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,241 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,302 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,820 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,254 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,255 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,755 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,778 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,128 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,500 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,255 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,832 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,588 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maddie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maddie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maddie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maddie, and how old are they?
5,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,253 Americans ever recorded as Maddie. The median Maddie alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 12,448 people named Maddie (12,389 women and girls, 59 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 409 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,200 |
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 Maddie born?
The states with the most babies named Maddie are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #893 | 0.8× |
| California | 18 | #1,341 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,036 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #554 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #748 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 12 | #835 | 0.8× |
| New York | 12 | #1,209 | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 10 | #461 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,026 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,006 | 0.6× |
Where Maddie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maddie is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 girls’ 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 Maddie 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,703 babies since 1880, Maddie is the third most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 282 of their 425 babies (66%), the most given that year.
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 Maddie
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 Maddie and names like it
- Compare Maddie and MaudeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaddie peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maddie since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Maddie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maddie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.