Maddux
Maddux was given to 113 boys in 2025, #1,533 among boys’ names; 4,098 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,060 Americans named Maddux and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maddux by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maddux mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maddux is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maddux?
#1,533 among boys’ names, 2025
Maddux fell from #1,055 in 2015 to #1,533 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 98.6 to 66.2 per million.
233 babies in 2017, the peak
Maddux peaked in 2017, when 233 babies were given it (213 boys, #972 among boys’ names). The 123 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,533 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 134 | #1,402 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,277 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 159 | #1,239 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,260 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,113 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 185 | #1,082 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 222 | #945 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 213 | #972 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 207 | #989 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | #1,055 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 209 | #992 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,163 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 147 | #1,214 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,190 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 182 | #1,056 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 203 | #981 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,040 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 157 | #1,142 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,201 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,212 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,379 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,252 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,857 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,020 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,307 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,780 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,549 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,985 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,068 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maddux a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,098 Americans recorded as Maddux, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls and 113 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maddux: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maddux, and how old are they?
4,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,098 Americans ever recorded as Maddux. The median Maddux alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,019 people named Maddux (195 women and girls, 2,824 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,420 |
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 Maddux born?
The states with the most babies named Maddux are Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 12 | #623 | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | #897 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,572 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,461 | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 6 | #550 | 3.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,035 | 2.2× |
| Utah | 5 | #770 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #823 | 0.7× |
Where Maddux is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maddux is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1996 it was given 3.1 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 Maddux 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, Maddux is the second most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 123 of their 1,974 babies (6.2%), again the second 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 Maddux
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 Maddux and names like it
- Compare Maddux and MaddoxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaddux peaked in 2017.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maddux since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Maddux: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Maddux.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maddux alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.