Maddux

Where Maddux comes from

The dictionaries list Maddux as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1996
    First appearance
    #4,878 among boys, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2018
    Peak, #942
    222 babies named Maddux — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Maddux turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.