Meaning not yet researched.
Maddox: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,664 in 2025. Its best rank was #136 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #136 in 2017; #210 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Maddox in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#210 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #136.
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Maddox: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,664 boys in 2025. Peak: #136 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 3,044 (2017).
In 2025, 1,664 US boys were named Maddox, making it the 210th most common boys’ name of the year, up 7 places from #217 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 1,668 boys named Maddox in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #136, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,044. For comparison, it was #148 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maddox in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 6 babies. In all, 48,944 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 26,556 babies named Maddox.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23,090 US boys were named Maddox; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 3,044. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,026 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maddox ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #75 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Maddux (4,098 babies since 1880), Maddix (2,484 babies since 1880) and Maddex (1,784 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maddax, Madix and Maddyx are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Maddax (582), Madix (489), Maddyx (440), Madox (357), Madyx (165), Madex (73), Madux (22), Madax (6), Maddoux (5).
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 Maddox 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 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 7 | #75 | #103 |
| West Virginia | 24 | #78 | #53 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #111 | #67 |
| Mississippi | 28 | #115 | #128 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #137 | #164 |
| Maine | 10 | #137 | #126 |
| Tennessee | 66 | #145 | #94 |
| Kansas | 26 | #148 | #103 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #150 | #92 |
| Alabama | 38 | #153 | #124 |
| Missouri | 44 | #159 | #122 |
| North Carolina | 80 | #160 | #83 |
| Oklahoma | 31 | #161 | #103 |
| Iowa | 26 | #166 | #97 |
| Nevada | 19 | #166 | #154 |
| Louisiana | 31 | #168 | #83 |
| Kentucky | 33 | #171 | #82 |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | #171 | #143 |
| Ohio | 77 | #174 | #155 |
| Georgia | 72 | #174 | #107 |
| Virginia | 52 | #177 | #159 |
| Idaho | 15 | #185 | #162 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #186 | #112 |
| Montana | 7 | #190 | #273 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #198 | #114 |
| Indiana | 42 | #201 | #134 |
| Nebraska | 13 | #203 | #118 |
| Florida | 104 | #208 | #139 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #222 | — |
| Arizona | 36 | #229 | #174 |
| Delaware | 5 | #233 | #194 |
| Texas | 167 | #236 | #155 |
| Minnesota | 25 | #246 | #227 |
| Colorado | 27 | #247 | #147 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #247 | #142 |
| Washington | 31 | #248 | #190 |
| Michigan | 38 | #267 | #164 |
| Maryland | 20 | #278 | #194 |
| Oregon | 15 | #291 | #217 |
| New York | 61 | #305 | #264 |
| Utah | 16 | #310 | #166 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #313 | #199 |
| Illinois | 34 | #320 | #191 |
| California | 105 | #339 | #216 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #341 | #182 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #344 | #148 |
| New Jersey | 24 | #352 | #244 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #405 | #185 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,635 | 1,664 | #210 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,168 | 1,668 | #217 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,013 | 1,890 | #195 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,950 | 2,108 | #179 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,845 | 2,220 | #173 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,460 | 2,293 | #170 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,885 | 2,483 | #156 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,948 | 2,811 | #140 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,948 | 3,044 | #136 |
| 2016 | 120 | #1,739 | 2,909 | #143 |
| 2015 | 90 | #2,136 | 2,789 | #148 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,064 | 2,579 | #163 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,297 | 2,418 | #170 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,890 | 2,312 | #168 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,856 | 2,222 | #169 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,826 | 2,108 | #179 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,841 | 2,103 | #181 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,903 | 1,858 | #208 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,844 | 1,628 | #227 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,499 | 1,501 | #236 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,472 | 1,207 | #277 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,949 | 728 | #378 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,529 | 378 | #582 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,067 | 96 | #1,378 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,623 | 25 | #3,473 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,952 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,154 | 12 | #5,530 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,951 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,169 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,813 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,472 |
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).