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Madis

Girls' name

Gift of God, through Mattias

Madis has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1923, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Madis, 1923

1 in 329,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madis: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of God, through Mattias

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madis means

Madis belongs to the name family reached through Madis → Mattias → Matthias. Its meaning is “gift of God”.

Origin, language, and formation

Madis is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mattias and Matthias.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Madis between 1923 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1923; its best national rank was #4,215 in 1923.

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 Madis?

Madis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923
1 in 329,000
7 of 2,302,410 births
Among girls only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1923
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
227,988 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madis 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 1923 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 227,988 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madis was born before 1923 — so the typical Madis is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Madis 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (7)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,215
1923

Spellings of Madis

Madis is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 25.1% against Madis'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.

Madis around the world

Where Madis 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.

  • France
    2008–2008
    #3,900
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1953–1959
    #464
    in 1959

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Madis 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
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Best rank ever
#4,215
1923
Peak year
1923
7 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
1923
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Madis

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

MadixMadelHudisMadleenMadianYidisMadelyHadisMadgelMadsenMaddonMadanyMadenaMadonaLyndisMadeneMadeeMadraMaddaxMaddeeMadileneMadayaMadalyMadria

Sibling names for Madis

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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