Meaning not yet researched.
Madden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 402 in 2025. Its best rank was #544 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #544 in 2011; #676 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Madden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#676 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #544.
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Madden: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 402 boys in 2025. Peak: #544 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 471 (2012).
In 2025, 402 US boys were named Madden, making it the 676th most common boys’ name of the year, up 15 places from #691 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 393 boys named Madden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #544, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 471, in 2012. For comparison, it was #611 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 168 US girls were named Madden, making it the 1,331st most common girls’ name of the year, up 483 places from #1,814 in 2024. That is 57 more than the 111 girls named Madden in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,331, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 168. For comparison, it was #3,685 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Madden in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 14 babies. In all, 9,233 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,478 babies named Madden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,542 US boys were named Madden; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 426. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,249 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Madden ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #247 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maddyn (1,165 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maddon, Madyn and Maudean are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Maddon (407), Madyn (274), Maudean (144), Maudene (73), Maedean (46), Maudeen (42), Maden (37), Maydene (36), Maydean (32), Madan (31), Maddin (24), Maiden (22), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Madden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 6 | #247 | — |
| Utah | 18 | #281 | #273 |
| Iowa | 12 | #322 | #272 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #365 | #484 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #366 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #414 | #422 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #427 | #466 |
| Kansas | 8 | #454 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #473 | #864 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #494 | #720 |
| Alabama | 10 | #506 | #778 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #535 | #558 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #544 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #564 | #549 |
| Arizona | 12 | #583 | #479 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #600 | #413 |
| Colorado | 9 | #604 | #575 |
| Ohio | 16 | #613 | #503 |
| Michigan | 12 | #664 | #743 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #675 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #682 | #577 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #689 | #681 |
| Washington | 9 | #713 | #533 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #714 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #731 | #601 |
| Missouri | 7 | #763 | #511 |
| Maryland | 6 | #773 | #478 |
| Georgia | 12 | #773 | #967 |
| Florida | 19 | #795 | #760 |
| Illinois | 10 | #844 | #722 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #850 | #688 |
| Texas | 27 | #924 | #596 |
| California | 23 | #982 | #610 |
| New York | 12 | #1,027 | #1,127 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,331 | 402 | #676 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,814 | 393 | #691 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,979 | 426 | #646 |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,863 | 419 | #657 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,146 | 291 | #822 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,808 | 287 | #811 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,204 | 294 | #788 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,276 | 299 | #777 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,522 | 354 | #697 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,206 | 377 | #678 |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,685 | 439 | #611 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,064 | 417 | #629 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,993 | 410 | #612 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,672 | 471 | #553 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,822 | 470 | #544 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,960 | 413 | #604 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,559 | 461 | #573 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,498 | 399 | #621 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,198 | 266 | #807 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,074 | 180 | #1,022 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,051 | 97 | #1,494 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,482 | 44 | #2,520 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,039 | 28 | #3,333 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,294 | 13 | #5,607 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,651 | 9 | #7,282 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,604 | 12 | #5,777 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,870 | — | — |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,653 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,404 | 6 | #8,845 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).