Madyson
Madyson was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,315 among girls’ names; 13,372 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,200 Americans named Madyson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Madyson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Madyson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Madyson is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Madison.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Madyson?
#2,315 among girls’ names, 2025
Madyson fell from #825 in 2015 to #2,315 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.05 per 1,000.
905 babies in 2007, the peak
Madyson peaked in 2007, when 905 girls were given it, #361 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,315 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,625 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,302 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,814 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,922 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,673 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 169 | #1,346 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 215 | #1,137 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 247 | #1,042 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 280 | #965 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 340 | #825 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 395 | #712 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 430 | #666 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 479 | #600 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 584 | #504 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 695 | #444 | 0.39 |
| 2009 | 782 | #404 | 0.43 |
| 2008 | 826 | #390 | 0.44 |
| 2007 | 905 | #361 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 780 | #409 | 0.41 |
| 2005 | 684 | #442 | 0.37 |
| 2004 | 663 | #454 | 0.36 |
| 2003 | 703 | #429 | 0.38 |
| 2002 | 659 | #443 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 627 | #443 | 0.35 |
| 2000 | 588 | #472 | 0.32 |
| 1999 | 419 | #588 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 371 | #628 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 300 | #719 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 201 | #958 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 170 | #1,056 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,652 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,908 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,802 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,588 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,713 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,783 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,461 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,389 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,084 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Madyson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Madyson has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Madyson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Madyson, and how old are they?
13,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,372 Americans ever recorded as Madyson. The median Madyson alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 10,969 people named Madyson (10,948 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,731 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 653 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,620 |
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 Madyson born?
The states with the most babies named Madyson are Texas, California and Florida, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,994 | 1.0× |
| California | 5 | #3,356 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,362 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,163 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,288 | 0.4× |
Where Madyson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Madyson is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1985 it was given 2.0 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 Madyson 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 493,993 babies since 1880, Madyson is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 6,914 babies (1.1%), 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 Madyson
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 Madyson and names like it
- Compare Madyson and MadisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMadyson peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Madyson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Madyson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Madyson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Madyson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.