Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Maddox
/MAD · ox/
Meaning
“Fortunate or beneficent”
Welsh surname from Madawg, a form of Madog meaning fortunate or beneficent; catapulted into given-name use after Angelina Jolie named her son Maddox in 2002.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Celebrity-driven spike is fading; will settle into niche but permanent use.
The cultural moment.
Rose sharply in the US from 2002 to 2015; declining but not disappearing.