Maddox
Feminine · “son of Madoc”
Maddox is given to both — 1,825 girls and 47,119 boys since 1880. See Maddox as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Maddox is the Welsh ap Madoc — son of Madoc — and Madoc means fortunate, from mad.
How old is the name Maddox?
Maddox first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Maddox is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,800 people named Maddox are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maddox most popular?
Maddox peaked in 2016, reaching #1735 nationally. Today it ranks #2607, 872 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mad to Maddox
The story of Maddox
Madog ab Owain Gwynedd is the prince legend says sailed to America in 1170, a story taken seriously enough in the eighteenth century that explorers looked for Welsh-speaking tribes. His name means fortunate. Maddox became an American given name for both sexes in the 2000s and is in current use.
Meaning
son of Madoc, fortunate
From the Welsh ap Madog, 'son of Madog', with the ap fused on. Madog descends from mad, 'fortunate' or 'good'. The same fusion gives Price from ap Rhys and Powell from ap Hywel. The Welsh is documented.
How the name formed
- mad
- Madog
- ap Madog
- Maddox
Related forms: Madog · Maddocks
Pronouncing Maddox
MAD-uks
Two syllables, stress on the first. Welsh Madog is MAD-og.
Nicknames for Maddox
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
- 1999
- Most girls named
- 2016120 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1735reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- −25.0%66 in 2025, from 88
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.
Maddox in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Madog in Welsh — related form
- Maddocks in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Maddoxs among us
people named Maddox are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 24,353 born in 2025 was named Maddox
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sheneka test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maddox's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sheneka climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sheneka's path sketches the road Maddox is walking now.
Maddox 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 Maddox is headed
Maddox 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.
Maddox beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maddox in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That people searched America for Welsh-speaking tribes on the strength of the legend is a first-rate fact.
- The fortunate meaning is transparent and good.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It reads as masculine and as a surname to most English speakers.
- The Mad clipping is an ordinary English adjective.
- The feminine use is very new.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maddoxs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Maddox are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maddox in 2025?
- Maddox ranks #2607 among US girl names in 2025, with 66 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maddox?
- About 1 in every 24,353 US girls born in 2025 was named Maddox — 66 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maddox with classmates?
- Maddox will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Maddox
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