Given name & surname
Madis
Madis is a masculine given name. It is used in Estonian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Madis is a form of Mattias. Mattias comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Estonian usage, Madis is a short form of Mattias. In Estonian usage, Madis is a short form of Matteus.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Madis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 0 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 104 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Madis’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Madis is a short form of Mattias. In Estonian usage, Madis has a conventional equivalent in the English form Matthew. In Estonian usage, Madis has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Matias.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Madis has relatives in 4 languages.
6 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 34
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Mateoequivalent
- MatthewEnglish
- Matteoequivalent
- MatiasPortuguese
- Mathiasequivalent
- MatthiasEnglish
- Mathewequivalent
- Mateusequivalent
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- Mattiaequivalent
- Mathieuequivalent
- Mattisequivalent
- Matveyequivalent
- Matthieuequivalent
- Mateuszequivalent
- Mattiequivalent
- Mateuequivalent
- Mateequivalent
- Matijaequivalent
- Matthijsequivalent
- Maciejequivalent
- Matejequivalent
- Mazzeoequivalent
- Matjažequivalent
- Matfijequivalent
- Matfeiequivalent
- Mátyásequivalent
- Analequivalent
- Matthäusequivalent
- Matúšequivalent
- Mazhevequivalent
- Matíasequivalent
- Maffeoequivalent
- Матвейequivalent
- Matyášequivalent
People named Madis
- Madis MihkelsEstonian cyclist (born 2003)
- Madis KõivEstonian writer, philosopher and physicist (1929–2014)
- Madis KallasEstonian athletics competitor and politician (born 1981)
- Madis VihmannEstonian footballer (born 1995)
- Madis MillingEstonian actor and politician (1970-2022)
- Madis TimpsonEstonian politician (born 1974)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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