Madi
Madi was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,419 among girls’ names; 515 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madi is “a diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Madison.”
Fanciful variant of Maddie.
/ˈmædi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madi?
#4,419 among girls’ names, 2025
Madi rose from #6,161 in 2015 to #4,419 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 19.9 per million.
50 babies in 2023, the peak
Madi peaked in 2023, when 50 girls were given it, #3,252 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,419 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,011 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,252 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,631 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,979 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,956 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,245 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,397 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,756 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,402 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,161 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,890 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,607 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,148 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,773 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,995 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,225 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,480 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,922 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,110 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,161 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,304 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,956 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,698 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,647 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,554 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madi, and how old are they?
An estimated 511 Americans named Madi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,096 people named Madi (1,999 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Madi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,135 babies since 1880, Madi is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 468 babies (6.8%), 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 Madi
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 Madi and names like it
- Compare Madi and MaudeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMadi peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madi since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Madi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Madi alive today were born 2013-2025.
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