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Maddison

feminine

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A modern double-d respelling of Madison, an English surname meaning 'son of Matthew' or 'son of Maud,' which shifted from a rare masculine given name to an overwhelmingly popular feminine given name following the 1984 film Splash.

Why it works

  • English speakers will almost certainly pronounce it correctly on the first try

Popularity

Distinctive — #439 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Meaning and origin

Maddison means 'Son of Matthew' or 'son of Maud' — inherited from the patronymic English surname Madison, of which Maddison is a modern double-d respelling.

Documented origin: A modern double-d respelling of Madison, an English surname meaning 'son of Matthew' or 'son of Maud,' which shifted from a rare masculine given name to an overwhelmingly popular feminine given name following the 1984 film Splash.

Documented as a variant or related form of another name.

How it travels

English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.

EnglishMAD-ih-suhn — US Englishresearched pronunciation
TurkishNo strong structural signal of Turkish/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis
GermanNo strong structural signal of German/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis

Spelling stability: highbased on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.

Also documented

English: /ˈmæd.ɪ.sən/ (MAD-ih-suhn)

Popularity without panic

Distinctive#439 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Recognizable without feeling overused.

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Madison

Documented as a related name or variant form.

Matthew

Documented as a related name or variant form.

Maud

Documented as a related name or variant form.