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Maddex vs Madison

American parents have registered 427,675 Madisons since 1880, against 1,784 Maddexes. Madison is still ahead, with 4,963 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maddex against Madison, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maddex Madison

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Madison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Maddex had 82 and Madison had 6,337.

Side by side

  Maddex Madison
Total US births 1,784427,675
Most in one year 14522,292
Babies in 2025 344,963
Estimated living today 1,800421,000
Median age today 1120
Peak year 20122001
Best rank 1,273rd boys2nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,379th40th
First recorded 20031880
Girls / boys 40 / 1,744419,806 / 7,869

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Madisons alive today are over 20; half the Maddexes are over 11. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maddex and Madison.