Maddison
Maddison was given to 703 girls in 2025, #439 among girls’ names; 24,116 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,900 Americans named Maddison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maddison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maddison mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maddison is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly British usage, variant of Madison.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname, less common than the female name today.”
From Madde (a medieval diminutive of Maud and Magdalene) + -son.
/ˈmædɪsən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maddison?
#439 among girls’ names, 2025
Maddison fell from #310 in 2015 to #439 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.59 to 0.44 per 1,000.
1,167 babies in 2009, the peak
Maddison peaked in 2009, when 1,167 girls were given it, #281 among girls’ names. The 703 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 703 | #439 | 0.44 |
| 2024 | 628 | #488 | 0.39 |
| 2023 | 641 | #477 | 0.40 |
| 2022 | 650 | #485 | 0.40 |
| 2021 | 593 | #520 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 649 | #474 | 0.40 |
| 2019 | 742 | #430 | 0.44 |
| 2018 | 762 | #405 | 0.45 |
| 2017 | 880 | #358 | 0.51 |
| 2016 | 988 | #336 | 0.56 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,054 | #310 | 0.59 |
| 2014 | 988 | #339 | 0.55 |
| 2013 | 899 | #356 | 0.51 |
| 2012 | 909 | #350 | 0.52 |
| 2011 | 981 | #321 | 0.56 |
| 2010 | 1,121 | #289 | 0.63 |
| 2009 | 1,167 | #281 | 0.64 |
| 2008 | 1,022 | #330 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 871 | #377 | 0.45 |
| 2006 | 787 | #404 | 0.41 |
| 2005 | 680 | #449 | 0.37 |
| 2004 | 565 | #514 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 560 | #512 | 0.31 |
| 2002 | 554 | #500 | 0.31 |
| 2001 | 581 | #479 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 648 | #435 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 561 | #470 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 559 | #462 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 499 | #497 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 446 | #529 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 383 | #594 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 269 | #763 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 177 | #1,040 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 167 | #1,082 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,455 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,678 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,286 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,230 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,595 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,815 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,081 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maddison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maddison has been given almost only to girls: 53 boys in 41 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maddison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maddison, and how old are they?
23,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 24,116 Americans ever recorded as Maddison. The median Maddison alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 19,066 people named Maddison (18,927 women and girls, 139 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,100 |
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 Maddison born?
The states with the most babies named Maddison are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 140 | #248 | 1.2× |
| California | 93 | #353 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 39 | #478 | 0.9× |
| New York | 36 | #478 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #376 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 29 | #396 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 23 | #354 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 20 | #506 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 20 | #349 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 16 | #633 | 1.1× |
Where Maddison is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maddison is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1985 it was given 1.4 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 Maddison 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 492,519 babies since 1880, Maddison is the second most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 703 of their 6,920 babies (10%), the third 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 Maddison
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 Maddison and names like it
- Compare Maddison and MadisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaddison peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maddison since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Maddison: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Maddison.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maddison alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.