Madge
Madge is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 217th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920464 births
- Best rank
- #217in 1898
- Since 1880
- 13,430people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,430 girls have been named Madge in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 464 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 464 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Madge | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 574 | |
| 1890s | 1,162 | |
| 1900s | 1,696 | |
| 1910s | 3,335 | |
| 1920s | 3,448 | |
| 1930s | 1,553 | |
| 1940s | 876 | |
| 1950s | 484 | |
| 1960s | 217 | |
| 1970s | 67 | |
| 1980s | 13 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Madge was the 303rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Madge
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Agnespeak 1918
- Omapeak 1916
- Essiepeak 1921
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Ednapeak 1918
- Vestapeak 1918
- Maybellepeak 1918
- Claudiepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.