Madden
#1,326 for girls in 2025, 168 births · #675 for boys in 2025, 402 births
Given to boys 83.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 470 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,682since 1997
Madden over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,326 | 168 | #675 | 402 |
| 2024 | #1,810 | 111 | #691 | 393 |
| 2023 | #1,965 | 100 | #645 | 426 |
| 2022 | #1,856 | 109 | #657 | 419 |
| 2021 | #2,131 | 88 | #822 | 291 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 | #809 | 287 |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 | #788 | 294 |
| 2018 | #3,245 | 49 | #776 | 299 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #695 | 354 |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 | #677 | 377 |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 | #611 | 439 |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | #629 | 417 |
| 2013 | #2,973 | 56 | #612 | 410 |
| 2012 | #2,654 | 67 | #553 | 471 |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 | #544 | 470 |
| 2010 | #2,938 | 58 | #602 | 413 |
| 2009 | #2,548 | 73 | #573 | 461 |
| 2008 | #2,485 | 76 | #621 | 399 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | #804 | 266 |
| 2006 | #3,054 | 55 | #1,021 | 180 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #1,485 | 97 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #2,489 | 44 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #8,110 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Madden! It came in at #8,110, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998–1999, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Madden
- 16 spots since 2024 (#691 → #675)
- 134 spots since 2020 (#809 → #675)
- 64 spots since 2015 (#611 → #675)
- Biggest jump: 217 spots in 2007 (#1,021 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 81 spots in 2018 (#695 → #776)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2011 at #544 (470 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,015 boys born in 2023 were named Madden (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,249 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #544 in 2011, was only 1 in 4,041 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 51.3% of all boys named Madden (3,944) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 11 | #8,110 (1997) | #8,871 |
| 2000s | 1,509 | #573 (2009) | #2,819 |
| 2010s | 3,944 | #544 (2011) | #649 |
| 2020s | 2,218 | #645 (2023) | #717 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Madden in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 24,881 of them was named Madden, which outranked 87.9% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,462Sherry77
- #2,462Tasia77
- #2,462Taylee77
- #2,485Madden76
- #2,485Adaya76
- #2,485Analicia76
- #2,485Brinlee76
- #2,511Aly75
- #2,511Alyana75
- #2,511Analiese75
Tied with 25 names at #2,485; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 5,113 of them was named Madden, which outranked 95.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.