How rare is the name Madisen?

4,298 people in the United States have the first name Madisen, about 1 in 70,273. It ranks #4,375 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MADISEN

#4,375

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,298
About
1 in 70,273
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,298 people named Madisen, 73.3% reported their origin as White, 9.8% as Black and 8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Madisen peaked in 2000, when 378 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19862025
Peak year
2000
Births that year
378
In 2025*
12 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,064 babies have been given the name since 1986. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Madisen by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,690. The largest share of babies named Madisen, 75.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#11,32782
1990s#1,9641,626
2000s#1,6902,613
2010s#4,733643
2020s#11,649100
Millennials 1981–9615.8%
Generation Z 1997–1275.6%
2013 and later8.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Madisen is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Madisen has been most common in Utah (7.8×), Washington (4.1×), and Arizona (2.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.45×).

3,480 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Madisen

1 other first name also has 4,298 people.

#4,375 Canaan · 4,298

Either side of Madisen

#4,374 Rubin · 4,300#4,375 Canaan · 4,298#4,377 Brecken · 4,297#4,377 Keyon · 4,297

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Madisen, most common first.

#137 Madison · 360,351#1,648 Maddison · 19,066#2,073 Madisyn · 13,120#2,325 Madyson · 10,969#6,828 Madysen · 2,304#12,788 Madigan · 962#12,997 Madisson · 940#14,176 Maddisyn · 836

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