In 2025, 282 US girls were named Maddie, making it the 927th most common girls’ name of the year, down 85 places from #842 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 321 girls named Maddie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #835, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 328. For comparison, it was #1,043 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maddie in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 6 babies. In all, 6,253 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,106 babies named Maddie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,548 US girls were named Maddie; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 328. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,700 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maddie ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #461 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maudie (11,851 babies since 1880), Madie (3,169 babies since 1880) and Mahdi (2,398 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maddy are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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