Is Madison a male or female name?
Madison is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 98%, based on 479,974 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 98%
- Sample size
- 479,974
- Confidence
- high
Madison by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 98% | 422,419 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 99% | 29,918 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | female | 99% | 21,043 | ons |
| France FR | female | 98% | 5,175 | insee |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 1,092 | cso |
| Switzerland CH | female | 97% | 200 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 97% | 90 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 95% | 37 | statat |
Attested in 62 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Madison over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Madison in the 1880s were girls, against 99.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 98.3% of the babies named Madison in the 1990s were girls, against 98.2% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 0% | 218 | — | |
| 1890s | 0% | 133 | — | |
| 1900s | 0% | 125 | — | |
| 1910s | 0% | 500 | — | |
| 1920s | 0% | 639 | — | |
| 1930s | 0% | 431 | — | |
| 1940s | 0% | 443 | — | |
| 1950s | 0% | 407 | — | |
| 1960s | 0% | 329 | — | |
| 1970s | 8% | 273 | — | |
| 1980s | 85% | 4,462 | — | |
| 1990s | 98% | 94,044 | 98% | 2,065 |
| 2000s | 100% | 194,162 | 99% | 1,935 |
| 2010s | 100% | 98,699 | 98% | 830 |
| 2020s | 99% | 27,554 | 98% | 280 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Madison with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Madison&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Madison
Is Madison a male or female name?
Madison is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 98%, based on 479,974 observations.
Why can the result for Madison change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Madison identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.