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Maddilynn vs Maddox

American parents have registered 48,944 Maddoxes since 1880, against 838 Maddilynns. Maddox is still ahead, with 1,730 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maddilynn against Maddox, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maddilynn Maddox

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

Maddox has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Maddilynn had 8 and Maddox had 103.

Side by side

  Maddilynn Maddox
Total US births 83848,944
Most in one year 703,147
Babies in 2025 191,730
Estimated living today 83049,000
Median age today 910
Peak year 20162017
Best rank 2,539th girls136th boys
Rank in 2025 6,116th209th
First recorded 20021995
Girls / boys 838 / 01,825 / 47,119

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.

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: Maddilynn and Maddox.