Mady

Meaning & origin●

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◐

Mady is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name14K records spelled Mady22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Maedy, Mädy, Mãdÿ, Maëdy, Mădy

• Spanish given name5.7K records spelled Mady12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, Peru, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mädy, Madÿ, Mådy, Mãdý, Mády

• a separate given name356 records spelled Mady3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Mády, Mädy

52 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●

Mady 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.

• variant of Mahdi.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1918–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mady Berryb. 1887FRactress from France
• Mady Correllb. 1907CACanadian actress (1907–1981)
• Mady Rahlb. 1915DEactress (1915–2009)
• Mady Mespléb. 1931FRFrench soprano (1931-2020)
• Mady Riehlb. 1940DEGerman actress and television presenter
• Mady Saksb. 1941NLDutch film director and screenwriter (1941-2006)
• Mady Adrienb. 1941BEBelgian sculptor (born 1941)
• Mady Delvaux-Stehresb. 1950LULuxembourg politician, MEP (born 1950)
• Mady Hornigb. 1957USAmerican psychiatrist
• Aïda Mady DialloMLMalian writer and film director

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 · 182 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mady?

We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Mady (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Mady have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Mady in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mady.

How common is Mady compared with other names?

In Mali, Mady is the 50th most common given name of 1,827 given names recorded there.

Is Mady a male or female name?

Mady is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

What does the name Mady mean?

Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from a place called Mad in Zemplen county, or Mad in Pozsony county, now in Slov^a.