Madai

Girls' name

Medes

Madai has been given to 571 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Madai, 2024

1 in 669,000

Madai over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madai: meaning, origin, and history

Medes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madai means

Madai means “Medes”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Madai is used in Biblical.

Origin, language, and formation

Madai is used in Sandawe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 571 girls were recorded with the name Madai between 1979 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,703 in 2002.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Madai?

Madai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Madai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madai was born before 2005 — so the typical Madai is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 71.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 571; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Madai rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2005 (27)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,703; 2002

Spellings of Madai

Madai is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 21.7% against Madai's 0.10%.

Maya21.7%123,587
Ada18.8%106,905
Jada11.8%67,400
Mara4.2%24,038
Sarai4.0%22,919
Maci3.7%21,342
Maia3.2%18,200
Mari2.9%16,579

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Madai is used

Across 1910–2025, Madai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 218,336 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000
2Illinois1 in —
3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Madai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,703; 2002
Peak year: 2005; 27 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 571
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Madai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Maddi Maddy Madyn Madi Madiha Maddix Maddyn Maddux Maddyx Madina Madden Maddox Madgie Mada Mady Madlyn Madinah Madia Madora Madalyne Madisynn Maddelyn Madelina Madalena

Sibling names for Madai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon

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