girls:
1.3k births since 1997
#4450 (22nd percentile)
boys:
6.9k births since 1997
#1420 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1997
#2993 (61st percentile)
The name Madden is the #2,993 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,156 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 61.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,420 (69.0% percentile) for all time with 6,884 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #4,450 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,272 births since 1997.
Madden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 .
The name Madden has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 81.0% of babies named Madden were boys. Interestingly, until around 2004, the name was more popular for girls (50.7% girls from 1997 to 2003), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (85.1% boys from 2004 to 2023).
For boys, Madden reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 45.6% percentile (ranked #480) with 231 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 233 births per million (ranked 41.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Madden is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #536 (41.2% percentile) with 233 births per million.
For girls, Madden reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #854) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 61 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Madden ranks #852 for girls (10.0% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 94.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Madden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Madden is pronounced as MA-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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