Maddix
Masculine · “son of Madog”
Maddix is given to both — 2,099 boys and 385 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Maddix is Maddox with an x that was already there, spelled a second time. The name is Welsh: a surname built from Madog, which was one of the ordinary men's names of medieval Wales before it became one of the country's commonest family names.
How old is the name Maddix?
Maddix first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Maddix is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,100 people named Maddix are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maddix most popular?
Maddix peaked in 2015, reaching #1307 nationally. Today it ranks #2833, 1,526 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Madog to Maddix
The story of Maddix
Welsh surnames were made by putting ap, 'son of', in front of the father's name, and when English administration forced fixed surnames on Wales the ap collapsed into the name itself — ap Rhys became Price, ap Hywel became Powell, ap Madog became Maddox. Madog was a common medieval Welsh name, carried by princes and by the figure in a much later legend about a Welsh voyage to America. The surname reached the United States and became a first name recently; Maddix is one of several current respellings of it.
Meaningscholars disagree
son of Madog — fortunate, good
Maddox is from the Welsh ap Madog or Madoc, 'son of Madog', with the patronymic worn down to a final s or x. Madog is usually read from Welsh mad, 'fortunate, good', though that derivation is offered rather than proven. The reading of the surname structure is certain; the meaning of the personal name underneath it is less so.
How the name formed
- Madog
- ap Madog
- Maddox
- Maddix
Related forms: Madog · Maddox
Pronouncing Maddix
MAD-iks
Two syllables, stress on the first, said exactly as Maddox. The i changes the spelling and nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Maddix
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2002
- Most boys named
- 2015135 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1307reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −36.2%44 in 2025, from 69
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maddix in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Madog in Welsh — related form
- Maddox in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Ohio, Texas.
Maddixs among us
people named Maddix are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 38,820 born in 2025 was named Maddix
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maddix
- #2833
- Maddix on the 2025 chart
- #866
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maddix went to 44 boys in 2025, but Madix and Maddyx are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 62, which makes it the 866th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,967 places above the chart.
- Maddix44
- Madix13
- Maddyx5
About 1 boy in 27,550 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 38,820 for Maddix itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tige test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maddix's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tige climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tige's path sketches the road Maddix is walking now.
Maddix sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Maddix is headed
Maddix should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Maddix beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maddix in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Welsh surname with a traceable patronymic structure behind it.
- The x gives it a distinct shape on paper without making it hard to say.
- Two syllables that every English speaker reads correctly at first sight.
- Maddox is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected in writing for life.
- The obvious short form is Mad, which many families would rather avoid.
- Maddox, Maddix, Madox and Maddoxx all circulate in American records.
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Masculine · #2833 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Maddixs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Maddix are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maddix?
- Maddix is the most-used spelling in US records — 44 of the 62 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Madix and Maddyx.
- How popular is the name Maddix in 2025?
- Maddix ranks #2833 among US boy names in 2025, with 44 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maddix?
- About 1 in every 38,820 US boys born in 2025 was named Maddix — 44 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maddix with classmates?
- Maddix will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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