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How popular is the name Madison?
Births per year, rank history and how many Madisons are alive today.
Madison (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 175th in 2025 with 280 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2005, when 1,556 babies were given the name, the 39th most popular that year. It has declined since 2005; the 2025 figure is roughly 18% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 18,000 babies have been named Madison in England and Wales since 1996. Madison is one spelling of a name also recorded as Maddison; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Madison include Maddie.
Across all spellings of the name, the Madison you are most likely to meet is around 20 years old. Half of all Madisons born in England and Wales are between 12 and 22, and there are at least 35,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 11% chance that at least one of them will be called Madison.
How many babies are named Madison each year?
Includes all spellings: Madison, Maddison. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Madison spelling rank?
Where does the Maddison spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Madison most popular?
Madison peaked in 2005, when 2,455 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Madison?
At least 35,000 people named Madison in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Madison?
Most living Madisons are between 12 and 22; the most common age is about 20.
Is Madison becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2005 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.