Meaning not yet researched.
Maddux: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #945 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #945 in 2018; #1,533 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Maddux in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,533 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #945.
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Maddux: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 boys in 2025. Peak: #945 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 222 (2018).
In 2025, 113 US boys were named Maddux, making it the 1,533rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 131 places from #1,402 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 134 boys named Maddux in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #945, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 222. For comparison, it was #1,055 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maddux in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 12 babies. In all, 4,098 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,988 babies named Maddux.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,713 US boys were named Maddux; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 222. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maddux ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #550 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maddox (48,944 babies since 1880), Maddix (2,484 babies since 1880) and Maddex (1,784 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Maddux 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 6 | #550 | #489 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #623 | #575 |
| Utah | 5 | #770 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #823 | #389 |
| Georgia | 10 | #897 | #884 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,035 | #702 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,572 | #1,072 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,461 | #1,606 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,850 | 113 | #1,533 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,453 | 134 | #1,402 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,790 | 151 | #1,277 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,410 | 159 | #1,239 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,313 | 152 | #1,260 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,298 | 177 | #1,113 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,189 | 185 | #1,082 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,559 | 222 | #945 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,198 | 213 | #972 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,810 | 207 | #989 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,885 | 189 | #1,055 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,929 | 209 | #992 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,407 | 155 | #1,163 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,511 | 147 | #1,214 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,876 | 149 | #1,190 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,865 | 182 | #1,056 |
| 2009 | — | — | 203 | #981 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,328 | 183 | #1,040 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,316 | 157 | #1,142 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,670 | 140 | #1,201 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,215 | 131 | #1,213 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,636 | 104 | #1,381 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,135 | 48 | #2,256 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,075 | 33 | #2,861 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #8,027 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,314 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,785 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,553 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,152 | 17 | #3,990 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,075 |
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).