Maddox vs Madelein
American parents have registered 48,944 Maddoxes since 1880, against 203 Madeleins. Maddox is still ahead, with 1,730 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Maddox Madelein
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 36 years in which either name was published, Maddox for 30 years and Madelein for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Maddox | Madelein | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 48,944 | 203 |
| Most in one year | 3,147 | 28 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,730 | 11 |
| Estimated living today | 49,000 | 200 |
| Median age today | 10 | 20 |
| Peak year | 2017 | 1989 |
| Best rank | 136th boys | 3,566th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 209th | 8,860th |
| First recorded | 1995 | 1989 |
| Girls / boys | 1,825 / 47,119 | 203 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Madeleins alive today are over 20; half the Maddoxes are over 10. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maddox and Madelein.