girls:
22.7k births since 1985
#947 (83rd percentile)
boys:
53 births since 1995
#4533 (1st percentile)
overall:
22.8k births since 1985
#1678 (78th percentile)
The name Maddison is the #1,678 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,760 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 78.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #947 (83.4% percentile) for all time with 22,707 births since 1985. For boys, it ranks #4,533 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1995.
Maddison first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (1985 for girls and 1995 for boys).
The name Maddison has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maddison reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 72.1% percentile (ranked #268) with 576 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 576 births per million (ranked 72.1% percentile). Despite a low point in 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Maddison ranks #431 for girls (54.5% percentile) with 362 births per million, which is 62.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maddison reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #791) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maddison".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Maddison. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.2% confident that Maddison is pronounced as MA-dih-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-dee-suhn, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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