Maddax
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAD-uks
- Origin
- Welsh
- US rank, 2025
- #5,859 for boys
Maddax is a boys' name of Welsh origin, meaning “son of Madog”. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).
What does Maddax mean?
Welsh: variant spelling of Maddox, from Welsh Madog
“son of Madog”
Maddox is a Welsh surname from Madog, the name of a legendary Welsh prince said to have sailed to America.
Is Maddax a girl's or a boy's name?
Maddax is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maddax in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,859among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 15about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 68% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 15 boys in the US were named Maddax, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,073rd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 37 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Maddax in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,867 boys in the US were given Maddax or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #215, up from #5,859 for this spelling alone.
In 2015, 13% of the babies named Maddax in the US were girls.
Maddax in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,859 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,180 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,073 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,256 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,369 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,376 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,882 |
| 2015 | 33 | #3,364 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,088 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,659 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,248 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,604 |
| 2010 | 25 | #3,993 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,222 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,558 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,125 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,861 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,937 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
Names like Maddax
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Jax Hendrix Bowen Memphis Gael Milo Beckett Hudson Archer Luca Lennox Onyx
Other spellings of Maddax
Names related to Maddax
More Welsh names
Dylan Owen Winnie Morgan Idris Reese Griffin Rhys Gavin Reece Nia Seren Gwendolyn Winifred Meredith Brynn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maddax: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maddax, updated 20 October 2026.