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Maddy

#3,811 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Madeline

Maddy has been given to 884 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #3,811 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Maddy, 2025

1 in 85,000

Maddy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maddy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Madeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maddy means

Maddy is a diminutive of Madeline.

Origin, language, and formation

Maddy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeline, Madeleine and Madison.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Maddy is pronounced /ˈmædi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 884 girls were recorded with the name Maddy between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,790 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,504 in 2020 to #3,811 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,230 in 2015 to #3,811 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 Maddy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,811
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maddy 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maddy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maddys were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
879
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (279).

Is Maddy 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
−1,021
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+693
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,419
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.9%
Peak was 2024 (61)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,790
2024

Spellings of Maddy

Maddy is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 90.0% against Maddy's 0.02%.

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 Maddy is used

Across 1910–2025, Maddy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 435,643 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Maddy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maddy around the world

Where Maddy 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
    1996–2024
    #3,696
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2004
    #372
    in 2004
  • France
    1924–2025
    #212
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maddy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,811
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 693
Best rank ever
#2,790
2024
Peak year
2024
61 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
884
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Maddy

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

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Sibling names for Maddy

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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