Maddux
Masculine · “son of Madoc”
Maddux is given to both — 3,833 boys and 265 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Maddux is a Welsh patronymic — son of Madoc — that reached American naming through a baseball pitcher, and Madoc means fortunate.
How old is the name Maddux?
Maddux first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Maddux is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,800 people named Maddux are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maddux most popular?
Maddux peaked in 2018, reaching #942 nationally. Today it ranks #1529, 587 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mad to Maddux
The story of Maddux
Madoc was a Welsh prince of legend said to have sailed to America in 1170 — a story taken seriously enough in the eighteenth century to send expeditions looking for Welsh-speaking Indians. The surname reached American given-name use through Greg Maddux, one of the great pitchers of the 1990s, and the name appears in the registers from 1996.
Meaning
son of Madoc; fortunate
From the Welsh ap Madoc, 'son of Madoc', anglicized as Maddox and Maddux. Madoc comes from mad, 'fortunate' or 'good', with a diminutive ending. The Welsh element is ordinary and the meaning undisputed; the ux spelling is an English clerk's rendering.
How the name formed
- mad
- Madoc
- ap Madoc
- Maddux
Related forms: Maddox · Madoc · Madog
Pronouncing Maddux
MAD-uks
Two syllables, stress on the first. Maddux and Maddox are said identically.
Nicknames for Maddux
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
- 1996
- Most boys named
- 2018222 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #942reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- −15.7%113 in 2025, from 134
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.
Maddux in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maddox in English — spelling variant
- Madoc in Welsh — related form
- Madog in Welsh — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Illinois, Texas.
Madduxs among us
people named Maddux are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 15,116 born in 2025 was named Maddux
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 Harlon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maddux's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Harlon climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Harlon's path sketches the road Maddux is walking now.
Maddux 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 Maddux is headed
Maddux 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.
Maddux beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maddux in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The fortunate meaning is transparent and the Welsh patronymic is well documented.
- The Madoc voyage legend is a genuinely strange and interesting piece of history.
- Two firm syllables that carry well against any surname.
- Maddox is much the commoner spelling.
- The x ending will need dictating every time.
- It is closely dated to the late 1990s and 2000s.
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Masculine · #1529 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Madduxs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,800 people named Maddux are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maddux in 2025?
- Maddux ranks #1529 among US boy names in 2025, with 113 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maddux?
- About 1 in every 15,116 US boys born in 2025 was named Maddux — 113 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maddux with classmates?
- Maddux will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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