girls:
410.2k births since 1970
#87 (98th percentile)
boys:
7.8k births since 1880
#1333 (71st percentile)
overall:
418k births since 1880
#167 (98th percentile)
The name Madison is the #167 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 418,000 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #87 (98.5% percentile) for all time with 410,184 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #1,333 (70.9% percentile) for all time with 7,816 births since 1880.
Madison has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1970 for girls). Birth data for Madison is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 44 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Madison has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1985, the name was more popular for boys (98.2% boys from 1880 to 1984), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.0% girls from 1985 to 2023).
For girls, Madison reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 99.9% percentile (ranked #2) with 11,190 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 11,190 births per million (ranked 99.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Madison ranks #35 for girls (96.4% percentile) with 2,950 births per million, which is 26.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Madison reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 31.7% percentile (ranked #541) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 259 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Madison ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 5.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Madison".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Madison. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Madison is pronounced as MA-dih-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-duh-suhn, at 27.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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