Madison

What Madison means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Madison?

US: Falling: down from #11 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #111 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2001, when 22,166 girls got the name (#2 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 325 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 905 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 559 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 VT (9.24 per 1,000 girls), DE (8.43 per 1,000 girls), CT (8.26 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Madison is #40 in the US and #175 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.6% of US babies named Madison 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

• Maddison703 US · 324 E&W
• Madisson958 US
• Madisyn168 US · 3 E&W
• Madyson79 US
• Maddyson24 US
• Madysson21 US
• Mattison19 US
• Maddisyn13 US

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

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Maddieson
• Maddison
• Madicyn
• Madisyn
• Madyson

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Madison

Girls

• Hailey#104“hay + clearing”^*
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Bailey#208“outer castle wall”^*
• Macy#718Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,483 babies; 390 in 2025
• Mckenna#410Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1972, with 5 babies
• Mckenzie#576Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 2,528 babies; 517 in 2025

For a brother

• Cole#182“coal, coal-black”^*
• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Riley#207“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Davis#668Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #668 vs #5,137 in 2025
• Peyton#683Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2007, with 3,375 babies; 398 in 2025
• Keaton#769possibly “hedge, enclosure + farmstead, settlement”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Madison’s. Rank is US 2025.