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Madi

#4,419 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Madeline

Madi has been given to 515 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #4,419 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Madi, 2025

1 in 104,000

Madi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Madeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madi means

Madi is a diminutive of Madeline.

Origin, language, and formation

Madi is used in English and Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeline, Madeleine, Madison, Maddie and Mattias.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Madi is pronounced /ˈmædi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 515 girls were recorded with the name Madi between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,252 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,956 in 2020 to #4,419 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,161 in 2015 to #4,419 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 Madi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,419
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madi 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madi was born before 2018 — so the typical Madi is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
515
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (225).

Is Madi 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
−408
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+537
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,742
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.52×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.0%
Peak was 2023 (50)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,252
2023

Spellings of Madi

Madi is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 57.8% against Madi's <0.01%.

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 Madi is used

Across 1910–2025, Madi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,010,489 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Madi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madi around the world

Where Madi 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
    2002–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • France
    1991–2025
    #5,475
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

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

Madi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,419
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 537
Best rank ever
#3,252
2023
Peak year
2023
50 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
515
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Madi

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

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Sibling names for Madi

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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