girls:
5 births since 2011
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
136 births since 1994
#4450 (3rd percentile)
overall:
141 births since 1994
#7598 (2nd percentile)
The name Madsen is the #7,598 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 141 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,450 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 136 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2011.
Madsen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Madsen is available in 17 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023 (17 years for boys and 1 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 Madsen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Madsen reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #908) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Madsen ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 67.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Madsen reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Madsen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Madsen is pronounced as MAD-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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