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Maddux

Gender
Boy
Say it
MAD-uks
Origin
Welsh
US rank, 2025
#1,529 for boys

Maddux is a boys' name of Welsh origin, meaning “fortunate”. In 2025 it ranked 1,529th for boys in the US (113 babies).

What does Maddux mean?

Welsh: spelling of Maddox, a Welsh surname

“fortunate”

A spelling of Maddox, a Welsh surname meaning son of Madog.

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

Maddux is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls and 113 boys in the US.

How popular is Maddux in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,529among boys
Babies in 2025
113about 1 in 15,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 32% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 113 boys in the US were named Maddux, making it the 1,529th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,111th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 222 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996. 10 girls were also named Maddux in 2025 (9,454th for girls).

It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Maddux than any year since 2004.

Half of all the boys named Maddux 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 Maddux or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #215, up from #1,529 for this spelling alone.

1996Busiest: 222 in 20182025
Maddux in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
2025113#1,529
2024134#1,397
2023151#1,271
2022159#1,237
2021152#1,253
2020177#1,111
2019185#1,080
2018222#942
2017213#972
2016207#985
2015189#1,049
2014209#991
2013155#1,162
2012147#1,212
2011149#1,183
2010182#1,056
2009203#978
2008183#1,037
2007157#1,139
2006140#1,194
2005131#1,208
2004104#1,377
200348#2,234
200233#2,813
20018#7,529
200018#4,198
199920#3,699
199815#4,409
199717#3,872
199612#4,871

Nicknames for Maddux

Names like Maddux

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

Other spellings of Maddux

Names related to Maddux

More Welsh names

Every Welsh name

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, “Maddux: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maddux, updated 20 October 2026.