Maddie

What Maddie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Maddie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,042 in 2015 to #925 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maddie?

US: Rising: up from #1042 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #270 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 328 girls got the name (#835 that year). First in the US records in 1893.

How common

• About 1 in 5,700 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,111 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in LA (0.61 per 1,000 girls), UT (0.47 per 1,000 girls), TN (0.44 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Maddie is #925 in the US and #357 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Maddie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mattie249 US
• Maudie10 US
• Mahdia0 US · 8 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Maddie

Girls

• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Sofia#9“wisdom, especially divine wisdom”^*
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies

For a brother

• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maddie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.