Madis

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Мадис in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Мадіс in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Madis is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name3.0K records spelled Madis4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Estonia, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German

  Also written Mādīs

• Spanish given name1.5K records spelled Madis3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Colombia, United States, Philippines, Venezuela

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mádis

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Madis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Madis Kõivb. 1929EEEstonian writer, philosopher and physicist (1929–2014)
• Madis Ojamaab. 1937EEEstonian actor and director (1937-1987)
• Madis Kalmetb. 1955EEEstonian actor and theatrical director (born 1955)
• Madis Millingb. 1970EEEstonian actor and politician (1970-2022)
• Madis Metsamartb. 1971EEEstonian percussionist (born 1971)
• Madis Müllerb. 1977EEEstonian banker (born 1977)
• Madis Kallasb. 1981EEEstonian athletics competitor and politician (born 1981)
• Madison Marsb. 1982EEnot in their usual nameEstonian DJ and record producer (born 1982)
• Madis Vihmannb. 1995EEEstonian footballer (born 1995)
• Madis Mihkelsb. 2003EEEstonian cyclist (born 2003)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 88 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Madis?

We estimate roughly 118 people bear Madis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Madis have the most bearers?

Madis is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled madis.

How common is Madis compared with other names?

In Estonia, Madis is the 84th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.

Is Madis a male or female name?

Madis is a male 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 Madis mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, short for Mattias and Matteus