Maddox
Maddox was given to 1,664 boys in 2025, #210 among boys’ names; 48,944 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 48,500 Americans named Maddox and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maddox by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maddox mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maddox is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Borrowed from Welsh Madog.
/ˈmædəks/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maddox?
#210 among boys’ names, 2025
Maddox fell from #148 in 2015 to #210 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.5 to 1.0 per 1,000.
3,147 babies in 2017, the peak
Maddox peaked in 2017, when 3,147 babies were given it (3,044 boys, #136 among boys’ names). The 1,730 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,664 | #210 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,668 | #217 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,890 | #195 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,108 | #179 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,220 | #173 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 2,293 | #170 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 2,483 | #156 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 2,811 | #140 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 3,044 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 2,909 | #143 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,789 | #148 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 2,579 | #163 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 2,418 | #170 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 2,312 | #168 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 2,222 | #169 | 1.2 |
| 2010 | 2,108 | #179 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 2,103 | #181 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 1,858 | #208 | 0.91 |
| 2007 | 1,628 | #227 | 0.78 |
| 2006 | 1,501 | #236 | 0.73 |
| 2005 | 1,207 | #277 | 0.60 |
| 2004 | 728 | #378 | 0.37 |
| 2003 | 378 | #582 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,375 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,468 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,945 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,524 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,947 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,164 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,806 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,465 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maddox a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 48,944 Americans recorded as Maddox, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 66 girls and 1,664 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maddox: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maddox, and how old are they?
48,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 48,944 Americans ever recorded as Maddox. The median Maddox alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 33,731 people named Maddox (1,264 women and girls, 32,467 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36,866 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 31,900 |
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 Maddox born?
The states with the most babies named Maddox are Texas, California and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 175 | #236 | 0.9× |
| California | 105 | #339 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 104 | #208 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 80 | #160 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 77 | #174 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | #171 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 72 | #174 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 66 | #145 | 1.5× |
| New York | 61 | #305 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 52 | #177 | 1.0× |
Where Maddox is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maddox is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1995 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 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 Maddox 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 58,903 babies since 1880, Maddox is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,730 of their 1,974 babies (88%), 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 Maddox
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 Maddox and names like it
- Compare Maddox and MadduxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaddox peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maddox since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Maddox: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Maddox.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maddox alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.