Madison
Madison is ranked 46th among girls in 2024 (4,563 births). Its best rank was 2nd, in 2001–2002.
- Rank in 2024
- #46down 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4,5630.28% of girls
- Peak year
- 200122,166 births
- Best rank
- #2first in 2001
- Since 1970
- 422,660people given the name
The story in the numbers
414,808 girls have been named Madison in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 22,166 births — 1.2% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 9 → 46).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 47%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100 and 18 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 7,852 boys have also been given it, 1.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2001, its biggest year
Madison was the 2nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Madison
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Simranpeak 2001
- Mattisonpeak 2002
- Deasiapeak 2007
- Alondrapeak 2005
- Haileepeak 2003
- Cyanpeak 1998
- Camerynpeak 1999
- Klaudiapeak 2004
Other spellings in the data
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.