Maddy
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maddy is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pet form of Madeleine and its variants.
- AUAustralia1 in 13K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 36K
- CACanada1 in 60K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.1K ●
- Sources
- 293 ●
- 1 in 15K ◐
across 5 countries
47K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Pet form of Madeleine and its variants. In the United States it is also used as a pet form of the modern girl’s name Madison. Variant: Maddie.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #949 | 9,054 | 7.9K rec. | — | 3 | Maddy | 140 |
| FR France | — | 4,545△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 15K | 4.5K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 4,029 | 30K rec. | 1 in 83K | 4K | Maddy | 293 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,442 | 2.8K rec. | — | 3 | Maddy | 133 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,377 | 1.3K rec. | — | 2 | Maddy | 98 |
| IN India | — | 1,102 | 985 rec. | — | 18 | Maddy | 70 |
| IT Italy | — | 665 | 737 rec. | — | 1 | Maddy | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 475 | 337 rec. | 1 in 36K | 475 | Maddy | 36 |
| DE Germany | — | 442 | 514 rec. | — | — | Maddy | 46 |
| BE Belgium | — | 364 | 314 rec. | — | 11 | Maddy | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | #926 | 224 | 96 rec. | — | — | Maddy | 38 |
| ES Spain | — | 180 | 164 rec. | — | — | Maddy | 27 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English36K54%
- French19K27%
- Spanish2.9K4%
- German1.4K2%
- Hindi1.1K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 36,473 | 54% |
| French | 18,504 | 27% |
| Spanish | 2,907 | 4% |
| German | 1,405 | 2% |
| Hindi | 1,120 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Maddy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a pet form of the Welsh personal name Madog (see Maddock).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 13 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 21 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 21 |
| 2004 | 27 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 24 |
| 2007 | 30 |
| 2008 | 44 |
| 2009 | 32 |
| 2010 | 33 |
| 2011 | 37 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 31 |
| 2014 | 37 |
| 2015 | 26 |
| 2016 | 27 |
| 2017 | 19 |
| 2018 | 25 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 30 |
| 2021 | 34 |
| 2022 | 56 |
| 2023 | 54 |
| 2024 | 61 |
| 2025 | 39 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1946–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maddy Coyb. 1950GBa researcher
- Maddy Thorsonb. 1988CACanadian video game developer
- Maddy Evansb. 1991USAmerican soccer player
- Maddy Cusackb. 1995GBEnglish footballer (1995-2023)
- Maddy Andersonb. 2002USAmerican soccer player
- Maddy Cohenb. 2003USAmerican bobsledder
- Maddy McWilliamactress
- Maddy FoleyCACanadian actress
- Maddy DarrallGBBritish actress
- Maddy McVicarUSbasketball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 204 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maddy?
- We estimate roughly 9.1 thousand people bear Maddy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maddy have the most bearers?
- Maddy is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled maddy.
- How common is Maddy compared with other names?
- In Australia, Maddy is the 949th most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
- Is Maddy a male or female name?
- Maddy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Maddy mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pet form of Madeleine and its variants.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maddy” — the 949th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.