Maddie

• English:/ˈmædi/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Maddie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Katie
• Addy
• Tilly
• Lyn
• Gabby

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

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

• French given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: French, Italian

  Also written Màddië, Maddïe, Måddie, Máddîè

• Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Argentina, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Maddïê

48 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.

Maddie 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 spelling of Maddy.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first 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.

• Maddie Bowmanb. 1994USAmerican freestyle skier
• Maddie Hassonb. 1995USAmerican actress
• Maddie Bailliob. 1996USAmerican actress and singer

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

49 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What are other forms of the name Maddie?

In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Lena and Magali are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Madeline and Madelaine.

Is Maddie a male or female name?

Maddie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik).

What does the name Maddie mean, and where does it come from?

A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How common is the name Maddie?

In the United States, the national register counted 12,448 people named Maddie in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.

How common is Maddie compared with other names?

In Australia, Maddie is the 827th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.

Which countries have the most people named Maddie?

In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Maddie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maddie. After it come Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and France; the country table on this page ranks them.

How do you pronounce Maddie?

In English /ˈmædi/ (Wiktionary).