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Yes, that’s literally what wikipedia says:
Madison is also used as a given name. It has become popular for girls in recent decades. Its rise is generally attributed to the 1984 release of the film Splash
There is a character named Madison 1964 film “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies” (later shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000), but he’s a boy, so I don’t know if this is relevant.
Only tangentially but thank you for your service.
This is my favorite tiny internet interaction.
I mean it makes sense, after all the name isn’t “Madidaughter”
Imogen is from a Shakespeare play, but it’s actually supposed to be Innogen but the first prints had a printing mistake and the name Imogen came into existence and the script with the error was reprinted for centuries. So everyone who is named Imogen is named after a typo.
I love this fact. I’m going to accept it without doing any verification!
James Madison was the 4th president of the United States. Just saying.
Did his mom see this movie?
Apparently… Since Madison wasn’t a name before Splash in 1984.
Madison, Wisconsin was Tedsville until Splash; it was so popular there, they changed the name of the city.
Madison wasn’t a given name before the movie
Tiffany was similarly not used as a first name until Tiffany & Co, and particularly Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the 1958 novel/1961 movie.
The “Tiffany” from Tiffany & Co was a last name, and that owner was one of a handful of Tiffany’s in the world at the time of the founding.
This is actually a myth. Tiffany as a name dates back before Shakespeare. The more you look into Tiffany as a name, thinking it’s modern, the more you’ll find it just fell out of favor for a while.
It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.
CGP Grey did research on the name Tiffany: https://youtu.be/9LMr5XTgeyI (8 min long video)
Obligatory !cgpgrey@toast.ooo mention!
Edit: damn it, has the toast instance gone toast?
Looks like it’s fine, it’s just been quiet.
The name “Kayleigh” was invented by Marillion in 1985
Keighleigh
What about Madison SG?
It was masculine before the film
James Madison and the presumed Madison family would beg to differ.
Was James Madison a Japanese woman? If not, your example doesn’t apply. We’re not talking about surnames or men’s names here.
What about Madisynn?
I spell Madisynn with a Q U
Wow, two N’s, and one Y, but it was not where I thought it would be.
