Madox
Madox was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,489 among boys’ names; 357 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madox by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Madox?
#11,489 among boys’ names, 2025
Madox fell from #5,193 in 2015 to #11,489 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 3.5 per million.
37 babies in 2009, the peak
Madox peaked in 2009, when 37 boys were given it, #3,143 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,489 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,750 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,407 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,482 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,413 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,232 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,946 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,571 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,193 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,394 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 16 | #5,546 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,879 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,762 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,283 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,143 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,344 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,856 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,350 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,004 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,373 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Madox a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madox has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madox: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madox, and how old are they?
An estimated 353 Americans named Madox 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 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 351 people named Madox (7 women and girls, 344 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 Madox?
Madox is a less common spelling of Maddox: SSA has recorded 357 Madox and 48,944 Maddox since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,903 babies since 1880, Madox is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,974 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
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 Madox
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 Madox and names like it
- Compare Madox and MaddoxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadox peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madox since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Madox.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madox alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.