Madge
Madge is a girl's name that peaked in 1920, when it was the 302nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2016. About 1,600 Madges are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Madge
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,430
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 78
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 302nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Madges are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,430 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,600 are alive — 12 in every hundred. Roughly 5 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Madges
- Madge Bellamy (1899–1990)American actress
- Madge Sinclair (1938–1995)Jamaican actress
- Madge Syers (1881–1917)British figure skater
- Madge Evans (1909–1981)American actress
- Madge Kennedy (1891–1987)American actress
- Madge Adam (1912–2001)English solar astronomer
- Madge Blake (1899–1969)actress
People named Madge with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Madge is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Madge is most concentrated in West Virginia (5.9×), Kentucky (4.1×), Arkansas (3.7×), North Carolina (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Madge peaked:
Madge elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Madge | 10 | 3,121st |
| Ireland girls | Madge | 8 | 440th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Madge against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.