Madge
Madge was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 13,430 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Madge and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (11% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 70 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madge by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madge mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madge is “a female given name”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Margaret”
/mæd͡ʒ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madge?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,836, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
464 babies in 1920, the peak
Madge peaked in 1920, when 464 girls were given it, #303 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,234 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,356 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,598 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,306 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,339 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 7 | #6,753 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,403 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,910 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,217 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,856 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,719 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,056 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,873 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,176 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 60 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 62 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 87 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 73 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 66 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 104 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 90 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 96 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 96 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 127 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1939 | 107 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 115 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 132 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 125 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1935 | 132 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 175 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1933 | 174 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1932 | 191 | #478 | 0.18 |
| 1931 | 193 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1930 | 209 | #466 | 0.19 |
| 1929 | 203 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1928 | 292 | #391 | 0.25 |
| 1927 | 273 | #417 | 0.23 |
| 1926 | 325 | #378 | 0.27 |
| 1925 | 314 | #387 | 0.26 |
| 1924 | 379 | #352 | 0.30 |
| 1923 | 373 | #338 | 0.31 |
| 1922 | 397 | #329 | 0.33 |
| 1921 | 428 | #317 | 0.35 |
| 1920 | 464 | #303 | 0.39 |
| 1919 | 428 | #306 | 0.38 |
| 1918 | 463 | #298 | 0.40 |
| 1917 | 435 | #298 | 0.40 |
| 1916 | 418 | #294 | 0.40 |
| 1915 | 378 | #301 | 0.38 |
| 1914 | 288 | #308 | 0.38 |
| 1913 | 264 | #292 | 0.42 |
| 1912 | 234 | #296 | 0.42 |
| 1911 | 210 | #269 | 0.50 |
| 1910 | 217 | #261 | 0.55 |
| 1909 | 180 | #267 | 0.52 |
| 1908 | 200 | #241 | 0.60 |
| 1907 | 166 | #269 | 0.52 |
| 1906 | 169 | #251 | 0.57 |
| 1905 | 184 | #233 | 0.63 |
| 1904 | 170 | #238 | 0.62 |
| 1903 | 146 | #251 | 0.56 |
| 1902 | 154 | #250 | 0.58 |
| 1901 | 143 | #241 | 0.60 |
| 1900 | 184 | #232 | 0.61 |
| 1899 | 122 | #258 | 0.52 |
| 1898 | 178 | #217 | 0.69 |
| 1897 | 125 | #254 | 0.53 |
| 1896 | 109 | #273 | 0.46 |
| 1895 | 126 | #251 | 0.54 |
| 1894 | 115 | #256 | 0.52 |
| 1893 | 105 | #262 | 0.49 |
| 1892 | 104 | #260 | 0.49 |
| 1891 | 78 | #284 | 0.42 |
| 1890 | 100 | #249 | 0.53 |
| 1889 | 80 | #264 | 0.45 |
| 1888 | 77 | #265 | 0.43 |
| 1887 | 65 | #262 | 0.45 |
| 1886 | 66 | #257 | 0.46 |
| 1885 | 55 | #269 | 0.41 |
| 1884 | 59 | #256 | 0.46 |
| 1883 | 49 | #259 | 0.44 |
| 1882 | 41 | #274 | 0.38 |
| 1881 | 41 | #248 | 0.45 |
| 1880 | 41 | #244 | 0.45 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madge a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madge has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madge: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madge, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 11% of the 13,430 Americans ever recorded as Madge. The median Madge alive today is 79 years old; half are between 70 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 2,508 people named Madge (2,508 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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 | 622 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 693 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Madge born?
The states with the most babies named Madge are North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 663 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Kentucky | 554 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 483 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 456 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| West Virginia | 419 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 394 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 392 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 366 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 353 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 328 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Madge is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madge is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.9 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 Madge 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 14,009 babies since 1880, Madge is the most given (96% of them).
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 Madge
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 Madge and names like it
- Compare Madge and MadgieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMadge peaked in 1920.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madge since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Madge.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Madge alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.