Given name & surname
Maddock
“a generous and benevolent man”
Maddock is used as a given name and a surname. One Welsh interpretation is “a generous and benevolent man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Welsh interpretation is “a generous and benevolent man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Welsh.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maddock through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 166
- 166 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −84%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,403 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Maddock’s family of names
Maddock has a related form in Maddoc. Maddock has a related form in Maddok. Maddock has a related form in Madoc.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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