Recorded 1880–2016 · United States
Madge was most popular in 1920, when 464 American babies were given the name — ranking #559 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 13,430 people named Madge.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Madge is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 101 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 2016.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 13,430 American births named Madge between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,595 are estimated to be alive today.
Madge was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Across the whole record Madge is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 13,430 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 1,595 Americans named Madge are alive today — 12% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 79 years old, and half are between 70 and 87.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org