Madisen
Madisen was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,660 among girls’ names; 5,064 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,000 Americans named Madisen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madisen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madisen?
#8,660 among girls’ names, 2025
Madisen fell from #2,835 in 2015 to #8,660 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 7.5 per million.
378 babies in 2000, the peak
Madisen peaked in 2000, when 378 girls were given it, #653 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,660 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,070 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,122 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,840 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,503 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,112 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,319 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,118 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,465 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,750 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,835 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,339 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,475 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,369 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,835 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,728 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 152 | #1,506 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 221 | #1,159 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 238 | #1,072 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 239 | #1,020 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 281 | #876 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 287 | #848 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 275 | #842 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 359 | #695 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 378 | #653 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 334 | #679 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 322 | #698 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 251 | #826 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 217 | #905 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,178 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,372 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,731 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,016 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,469 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,585 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,361 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,473 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,410 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madisen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madisen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madisen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madisen, and how old are they?
5,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,064 Americans ever recorded as Madisen. The median Madisen alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,298 people named Madisen (4,276 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,922 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 785 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 430 |
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 Madisen born?
The states with the most babies named Madisen are California, Texas and Washington, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 488 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 281 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 234 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Utah | 225 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Illinois | 199 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 194 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 170 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 157 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 130 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 128 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Madisen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madisen is most over-represented in Utah: since 1986 it was given 3.3 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 Madisen 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 494,224 babies since 1880, Madisen is the fifth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 6,903 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Madisen
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 Madisen and names like it
- Compare Madisen and MadisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadisen peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madisen since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Madisen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madisen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.