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Madgie

Madgie is a girl's name that peaked in 1917, when it was the 1,605th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1947. About 60 Madgies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 85.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Madgie

By the numbers

Total US births
579
Estimated living today
60
Median age today
85
Peak year
1917
Best rank
1,605th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1887

How old the living Madgies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 579 babies given the name since 1887, about 60 are alive — 10 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1940 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.

Where Madgie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Madgie is most concentrated in Alabama (32.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1917

The most popular girls’ names the year Madgie peaked:

All the names of 1917

Related names

Madgie 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.