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.
Where Madden is popular in 1997
No state had 5 or more boys named Madden in 1997, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 217,589 of them was named Madden, which outranked 39.4% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,017Zeana9
- #9,017Zitlaly9
- #9,017Zuleyka9
- #9,802Madden8
- #9,802Aaliayah8
- #9,802Aamina8
- #9,802Aaren8
- #10,836Aaisha7
- #10,836Aaleah7
- #10,836Aaleigha7
Tied with 1,033 names at #9,802; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 314,190 of them was named Madden, which outranked 25.0% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,281Zoey7
- #7,281Zoran7
- #7,281Zyair7
- #8,110Madden6
- #8,110Aaditya6
- #8,110Aaric6
- #8,110Aashish6
- #9,265Aadam5
- #9,265Aaran5
- #9,265Aarik5
Tied with 1,154 names at #8,110; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.