The first name Maddox is particularly common in the English-speaking world and goes back to the Welsh. Accordingly, the first name means ‘son of Madoc’ and ‘happy’.
Maddox is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Maddox isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Maddox ranks 147. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 15 were named Maddox. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maddox.
The first name Maddox is particularly common in the English-speaking world and goes back to the Welsh. Accordingly, the first name means ‘son of Madoc’ and ‘happy’.
Madoc originates from a ... 7th-century Welsh poem about a renowned warrior and was also the name of a famous prince, who explored the Americas in the 12th century.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Maddox occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Maddox is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Maddox is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 39,334 men and boys of all generations bear the name Maddox – that is one in 4,226. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Maddox, while it is particularly rare in Washington, D.C., where you have to ask an average of 52,327 men for their name to get Maddox as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Maddox is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Maddox and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maddox, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Orange
Xylophone
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maddox
Maddox
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
D
D
O
X
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
D
D
O
X
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maddox sounds like this:
