Primarily a girl's name · 98% girls
Origin: EnglishIn Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Madison yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Madison's 56% decline over the past decade ranks third-steepest in this batch, behind Jayden and Andrew. 2001 was its high point on both fronts: 22,166 births, #2 nationally — a genuine near-chart-topping run that's since fallen to 4,563 births and #46 in 2024.
Unusually for a name this large, its data history doesn't reach back to 1880 at all — the first recorded year is 1970, a full 90 years into the dataset, among the shortest histories of any major name covered so far.
Its famous-bearer list is almost entirely young performers born in the late 1990s — Madison Beer, Madison Iseman, Madison Pettis — a generational cluster with no older reference point at all.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | #7,607 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,063 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,617 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,836 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,326 |
| 1985 | 301 | #625 |
| 1986 | 647 | #366 |
| 1987 | 749 | #326 |
| 1988 | 824 | #299 |
| 1989 | 1,225 | #222 |
| 1990 | 1,408 | #203 |
| 1991 | 2,471 | #128 |
| 1992 | 3,165 | #107 |
| 1993 | 4,384 | #78 |
| 1994 | 6,264 | #51 |
| 1995 | 9,775 | #29 |
| 1996 | 13,410 | #15 |
| 1997 | 15,189 | #10 |
| 1998 | 17,787 | #9 |
| 1999 | 18,054 | #7 |
| 2000 | 19,968 | #3 |
| 2001 | 22,166 | #2 |
| 2002 | 21,773 | #2 |
| 2003 | 20,201 | #3 |
| 2004 | 20,628 | #3 |
| 2005 | 19,578 | #3 |
| 2006 | 18,635 | #3 |
| 2007 | 17,968 | #5 |
| 2008 | 17,046 | #6 |
| 2009 | 15,254 | #7 |
| 2010 | 13,194 | #8 |
| 2011 | 12,406 | #8 |
| 2012 | 11,416 | #9 |
| 2013 | 10,604 | #9 |
| 2014 | 10,331 | #9 |
| 2015 | 10,107 | #11 |
| 2016 | 9,055 | #15 |
| 2017 | 7,907 | #17 |
| 2018 | 7,099 | #22 |
| 2019 | 6,300 | #26 |
| 2020 | 6,249 | #23 |
| 2021 | 5,962 | #29 |
| 2022 | 5,506 | #34 |
| 2023 | 5,174 | #37 |
| 2024 | 4,563 | #46 |
