Madge — girls' name

What the Data Says About Madge

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,430 babies named Madge between 1880 and 2016, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Madge currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 464 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Madge performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,448 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Madge shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 663 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Madge in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Madge in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13,430 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.