Maddyson
Feminine · “Son of Maud”
Maddyson is Madison with two letters changed, and Madison is one of the best-documented naming events in American history: essentially a surname until a 1984 film gave it to a mermaid as a joke, and a top-ten girls' name within fifteen years. The y spelling belongs to the crest of that wave.
How old is the name Maddyson?
Maddyson first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Maddyson alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,000 people named Maddyson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maddyson most popular?
Maddyson peaked in 2009, reaching #2592 nationally. Today it ranks #5238, 2,646 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Maud to Maddyson
The story of Maddyson
James Madison drafted the Constitution and was the fourth president, which made the surname prominent, and it was used in small numbers as a boy's name in the nineteenth century. In 1984 the film Splash has a mermaid choose a name from a Manhattan street sign — Madison Avenue — and a character objects that Madison is not a name. Within a decade it was, and by 2001 it was second in the country for girls. That kind of vertical rise always produces respellings, and Maddyson, Madisyn, Madyson and Madisen all appear in the 1990s and 2000s. Maddyson peaks in 2009, on the far side of Madison's own high point.
Meaningscholars disagree
Son of Maud, or son of Matthew
The surname Madison is a patronymic, and the base name is disputed: Maud, the medieval form of Matilda, and Matthew are both proposed, and different bearer families may descend from either. Whatever the answer, the literal sense is son of, which is the small irony sitting inside one of the most popular girls' names of the last thirty years. The y of Maddyson is an American respelling with no separate history.
How the name formed
- Maud
- Madison
- Maddyson
Related forms: Madison
Pronouncing Maddyson
MAD-i-sun
Three syllables, stress on the first, identical to Madison. The y is a spelling choice and changes nothing in speech.
Nicknames for Maddyson
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
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 200971 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2592reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −20.0%24 in 2025, from 30
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.
Maddyson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Madison in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Maddysons among us
people named Maddyson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 66,969 born in 2025 was named Maddyson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maddyson
- #5238
- Maddyson on the 2025 chart
- #34
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maddyson went to 24 girls in 2025, but Madison, Maddison and Madyson are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 5,751, which makes it the 34th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,204 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 279 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 66,969 for Maddyson 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 Roxi test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maddyson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Roxi climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Roxi's path sketches the road Maddyson is walking now.
Maddyson 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
Maddyson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maddyson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Maddy is one of the friendliest short forms in current use.
- It sounds exactly like an extremely familiar name.
- Everyone can say it correctly on sight.
- Madison is the standard spelling and will be written for it, always.
- Madison, Madisyn, Madyson, Maddison and Maddyson are five spellings of one name.
- The name is tightly dated to the two decades after 1990.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maddysons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Maddyson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maddyson?
- Maddyson is one of 4 recorded spellings. Madison is the more common one — 4,945 births in 2025 against 24 for Maddyson.
- How popular is the name Maddyson in 2025?
- Maddyson ranks #5238 among US girl names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maddyson?
- About 1 in every 66,969 US girls born in 2025 was named Maddyson — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maddyson with classmates?
- Maddyson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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