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Maddie

#927 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Madeline

Maddie has been given to 6,253 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #927 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 328 recorded.

Babies named Maddie, 2025

1 in 11,800

Maddie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maddie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Madeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maddie means

Maddie is a diminutive of Madeline.

Origin, language, and formation

Maddie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeline, Madeleine and Madison.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Maddie is pronounced /ˈmædi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,253 girls were recorded with the name Maddie between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 328 in 2023; its best national rank was #835 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,162 in 2020 to #927 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,043 in 2015 to #927 in 2025.

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 Maddie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,800
282 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,700
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#927
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,150 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maddie 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 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,150 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maddie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maddies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maddie was born before 2013 — so the typical Maddie is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,874
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Choose a decade

2010s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (2,106).

Is Maddie 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
−85
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+235
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+116
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.0%
Peak was 2023 (328)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#835
2023

Spellings of Maddie

Maddie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 37.9% against Maddie's 0.44%.

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 Maddie is used

Across 2016–2025, Maddie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 2,041 girls, against 1 in 6,342 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in 25,000).

449 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 2,041
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 2,222
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 3,030
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 3,125
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 3,333
  6. 6Utah1 in 3,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 3,571
  8. 8Georgia1 in 4,545

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.

Geographically, Maddie is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 64% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Maddie around the world

Where Maddie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #357
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2025
    #205
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #294
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2025
    #393
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #647
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Maddie

People whose public names include Maddie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maddie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#927
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 235
Best rank ever
#835
2023
Peak year
2023
328 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,253
Count in 2025
282

Names similar to Maddie

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

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Names with a curve like Maddie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maddie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PromiseGiavannaElinaZainabMariellaKamariAyaViviannaKeziahAzariaLeenaSoleil

Sibling names for Maddie

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

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