# Mads (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mads/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 254 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 254 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 16, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 13,585 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,605 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,323 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,564 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,372 |
| 2017 | 14 | 6,221 |
| 2018 | 16 | 5,689 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,737 |
| 2020 | 23 | 4,365 |
| 2021 | 30 | 3,707 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,384 |
| 2023 | 29 | 3,853 |
| 2024 | 29 | 3,858 |
| 2025 | 28 | 3,912 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Mads

- Mads Hermansen, Danish association football player (born 2000)
- Mads Pedersen, Danish cyclist, born 1995
- Mads Mensah Larsen, Danish handball player
- Mads Christiansen, Danish handball player
- Mads Bidstrup, Danish association football player
- Mads Rasmussen, Danish rower
- Mads Pedersen, Danish association football player (1996-)
- Mads Roerslev, Danish association football player
- Mads Würtz Schmidt, Danish cyclist, born 1994
- Mads Andersen, Danish rower
- Mads Bech Sørensen, Danish association football player
- Mads Junker, Danish footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.