Maddox

Maddox was a Welsh surname doing quiet work for centuries, a variant of Madoc meaning "son of Madoc" or "fortunate," until Angelina Jolie named her first son Maddox in 2002 and the American charts rearranged themselves. Within a few years it had leapt into the top 100 for boys. The sound is the appeal: the drumbeat of two hard syllables, the X landing with a click. It feels rugged and modern at once, with the Welsh root giving it just enough history to feel earned. One of the defining celebrity-driven names of the millennium.