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Madisen

#8,660 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Madisen has been given to 5,064 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #8,660 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 378 recorded.

Babies named Madisen, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madisen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madisen means

Madisen is a given name.

The naming story behind Madisen

Wikidata records Madisen as a given name. The entity identifier is Q99301539, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,064 girls were recorded with the name Madisen between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 378 in 2000; its best national rank was #653 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,112 in 2020 to #8,660 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,835 in 2015 to #8,660 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.

How common is Madisen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,660
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madisen 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madisen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madisens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madisen was born before 2002 — so the typical Madisen is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,064
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (2,613).

Is Madisen 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
−2,590
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,548
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,825
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.19×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.2%
Peak was 2000 (378)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#653
2000

Spellings of Madisen

Madisen is not the most common spelling — Madison is, with 79.6% against Madisen's 0.96%.

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 Madisen is used

Across 1910–2025, Madisen was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 42,598 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 5,556
  2. 2Washington1 in 11,111
  3. 3Arizona1 in 16,667
  4. 4Idaho1 in 16,667
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 16,667
  6. 6Oregon1 in 16,667
  7. 7South Dakota1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 25,000

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. Madisen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madisen around the world

Where Madisen 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
    2005–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1992–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2002–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Madisen

People whose public names include Madisen, 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.

Madisen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Madisen. Linked forms have their own page here.

Madison

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Madisen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,660
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,548
Best rank ever
#653
2000
Peak year
2000
378 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,064
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Madisen

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

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Names with a curve like Madisen

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

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Sibling names for Madisen

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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