Maddox

Maddox is the 991st most common surname in the United States, shared by 34,687 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,617.

By the numbers

People: 34,687
Rank: 991st
How common: 1 in 8,617
Per 100,000: 11.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh, from a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Maddox described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 67.0%
Black, not Hispanic 24.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Maddox

Brad Maddox (born 1984)American professional wrestler
John Maddox (1925–2009)Welsh chemist, physicist, journalist and editor
Lester Maddox (1915–2003)American politician from Georgia

People named Maddox with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Maddox

Also a first name

Maddox has been given to 48,944 American babies as a first name since 1995, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.