Maddyson
Maddyson was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,335 among girls’ names; 1,003 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maddyson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maddyson?
#5,335 among girls’ names, 2025
Maddyson fell from #3,287 in 2015 to #5,335 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 14.9 per million.
71 babies in 2009, the peak
Maddyson peaked in 2009, when 71 girls were given it, #2,607 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,335 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,623 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,120 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,879 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,867 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,226 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,244 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,976 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,195 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,487 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,287 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,352 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,244 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,344 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,036 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,099 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,607 | 38.6 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,107 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,199 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,348 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,436 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,955 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,615 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,939 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,479 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,908 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,707 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,715 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,106 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,307 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,245 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maddyson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maddyson has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maddyson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maddyson, and how old are they?
An estimated 994 Americans named Maddyson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 749 people named Maddyson (745 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 874 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Maddyson?
Maddyson is a less common spelling of Madison: SSA has recorded 1,003 Maddyson and 427,675 Madison since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 473,329 babies since 1880, Maddyson is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 6,747 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Maddyson
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 Maddyson and names like it
- Compare Maddyson and MadisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaddyson peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maddyson since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Maddyson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maddyson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.