Madison (name)
Madison is a surname of English origin that has become a popular given name in the United States, and to a lesser extent in Canada. Madison, also spelled Maddison, is a variant of Mathieson, meaning son of Matthew. A different origin is alleged by some where Maddy is assumed to be the pet form of Maud and therefore the meaning is son of Maude.
Madison is also used as a given name. It has become popular for girls in recent decades. Its rise is generally attributed to the 1984 release of the film Splash. From an almost non-existent given name before 1985, Madison rose to being the second-most-popular name given to girls in the US in 2001. In 2024, the most recent year of available data, it was ranked forty-sixth. In 2022, it was the 41st most popular name given to girls in Canada.
As a masculine given name, Madison can be found within the top 1,000 names for boys in the United States up until about 1952. The name returned to the top 1,000 in 1987, remaining there through 1999, and it was the 858th-most-common name for boys in 2004, but it remains uncommon as a masculine given name.
Surname
Given name
Male
- Madison Smartt Bell, novelist
- Madison Bumgarner, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Madison Cawthorn, American politician
- Madison Cooper, American businessman
- Madison Grant, lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist
- Madison Hedgecock, American football player
- Madison Hemings, son of Thomas Jefferson's slave/mistress Sally Hemings
- Madison E. Hollister, justice of the Idaho Territorial supreme court
- Madison Hughes, American rugby player
- Madison Jones, author
- Madison Marye, American politician
- Madison Nelson, justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
- Madison S. Perry, fourth governor of Florida
- Madison Washington, instigator of slave revolt
- Madison Whittle, American politician
Fictional male characters
- Madison Jeffries, comic book character in Alpha Flight
- Madison "Mad" Twatter, minor character, played by Stephen Walters in British drama television series ''Skins''
Female
Madison- Madison Anderson, American model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Madison Bailey, American actress
- Madison Beer, American singer
- Madison Bizal, American ice hockey player
- Madison Booker, American basketball player
- Madison Brengle, American tennis player
- Madison Browne, Australian international netball player
- Madison Chock, American ice dancer
- Madison Conner, American basketball player
- Madison Cunningham, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Madison Davenport, American actress and singer
- Madison De La Garza, American actress and younger sister of Demi Lovato
- Madison Hu, American actress
- Madison Hubbell, American ice dancer
- Madison Humphrey, American TikToker and journalist
- Madison Iseman, American actress
- Madison Keys, American tennis player
- Madison Kocian, American Olympic gymnast
- Madison Abigail Less, American soccer player
- Madison Lilley, American volleyball player
- Madison Lintz, American actress
- Madison Marsh, American air force officer and Miss America 2024 titleholder
- Madison McLaughlin, American actress
- Madison McReynolds, American actress
- Madison "Maddie" Mogen, American murder victim
- J. Madison Wright Morris, American actress
- Madison Nguyen, American politician
- Madison Nonoa, New Zealand-born soprano opera singer
- Madison Pettis, American actress
- Madison Prespakis, Australian Rules footballer
- Madison Rayne, American professional wrestler
- Madison Scott, Canadian formerly missing person
- Madison Scott, American basketball player
- Madison Shipman, American former professional softball player
- Madison Strelow, Australian Journalist
- Madison Thomas, Canadian film and television director
- Madison Young, American pornographic actress, stage name
- Maddie Ziegler, American dancer
- Madisson Hausburg, Siesta Key cast member
- Madisyn Shipman, American actress
- Madyson Middleton, American murder victim
- Maddison Brown, Australian actress
Fictional female characters
Film- Madison, the mermaid in the film Splash and its sequel Splash, Too
- Madison Morgan, the main antagonist in the film The DUFF
- Madison Russell, a main character in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong, played by Millie Bobby Brown.
- Madison Wolfsbottom, one of the antagonists in the animated film Clifford's Really Big Movie
- Madison, a character from the series This is Us
- Madison, a character who appeared in the Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot episode "Bully Exposed"
- Madison "Madi" Bader, a Season 2 contestant in Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
- Madison Clark, main protagonist portrayed by Kim Dickens in Fear The Walking Dead
- Madison Duarte, cheerleader portrayed by Valery Ortiz in South of Nowhere
- Madison Fear, a doll persona of Madison Beer in Monster High
- Madison James, businesswoman portrayed by Sarah Joy Brown in Days of Our Lives
- Madison Kellner, a recurring character in the second and third seasons of the WB drama series Everwood
- Madison McCarthy, cheerleader portrayed by Laura Dreyfuss on Glee
- Madison Maxwell, a PR expert portrayed by Brenda Song in Dollface
- Madison Montgomery, actress and witch portrayed by Emma Roberts in American Horror Story: Coven
- Madison Rocca, the Blue Ranger in Power Rangers Mystic Force
- Madison "Maddie" Rooney, high school student and one of two main protagonists and title characters jointly portrayed by Dove Cameron in Liv and Maddie
- Madison Sinclair, student portrayed by Amanda Noret in Veronica Mars
- Madison Taylor, a.k.a. Tomoyo Daidouji, a protagonist and costume designer portrayed by Maggie Blue O'Hara in the Cardcaptor Sakura English dub
- Madison "Maddie" Nears, the protagonist in School Spirits.
- Madison "Maddie" Redfield, the daughter of Vice President Ashley Redfield in The Night Agent.
- Madisynn King, character portrayed by Patty Guggenheim in the Marvel TV show She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
- Madison Paige, photographer, journalist and protagonist primarily portrayed by Judi Breecher in Heavy Rain
- Madison the Magic Snow Fairy, in ''Rainbow Magic''