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Maddon

Boy · MAD-en · Irish

Maddon is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “descendant of Madan”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).

What does Maddon mean?

Irish: spelling of Madden; Irish surname, from O Madain

“descendant of Madan”

An Irish surname, probably from madadh, dog; also linked to coach John Madden and the Madden NFL video games.

Say it
MAD-en

Meaning borrowed from Madden.

Is Maddon a girl's or a boy's name?

Maddon is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Maddon in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,906among boys
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 210,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 82% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Maddon, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 58 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.

Half of all the boys named Maddon in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 410 boys in the US were given Maddon or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #638, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.

2006Busiest: 58 in 20172025
Maddon in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#8,906
20240–
20236#10,815
202210#7,762
202110#7,582
202017#5,231
201926#4,000
201837#3,104
201758#2,269
201640#2,934
201522#4,405
201427#3,784
201316#5,400
201224#4,128
201124#4,108
201021#4,516
200915#5,796
200821#4,537
200712#6,618
20068#8,726

Names like Maddon

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Maddon

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