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Madison vs Madylin

American parents have registered 427,675 Madisons since 1880, against 617 Madylins. Madison is still ahead, with 4,963 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Madison Madylin

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 2008, when Madison had 17,104 and Madylin had 42.

Side by side

  Madison Madylin
Total US births 427,675617
Most in one year 22,29250
Babies in 2025 4,963under 5
Estimated living today 421,000610
Median age today 2018
Peak year 20012002
Best rank 2nd girls2,935th girls
Rank in 2025 40thunranked
First recorded 18801996
Girls / boys 419,806 / 7,869617 / 0

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 Madylins are over 18. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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