Maddax
#6,030 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maddax has been given to 582 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #6,030 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Maddax, 2025
1 in 221,000
Maddax over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maddax?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,030
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maddax sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maddax. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maddaxs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maddax was born before 2014 — so the typical Maddax is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 569
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (302).
Is Maddax 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
- +3,495
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,923
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,623
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.45×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.5%
- Peak was 2020 (37)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maddax
Maddax is not the most common spelling — Maddox is, with 73.1% against Maddax's 0.88%.
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 Maddax is used
Across 1910–2025, Maddax was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,147,784 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Maddax has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Maddax around the world
Where Maddax ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2009–2019#2,943in 2019
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Maddax by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Maddax
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maddax
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.