I just wanted to see your opinion. I take [name]Madison[/name] as a girl name. [name]Madison[/name] [name]Joy[/name] is on my favourite name list, I ask people what they think of it, and I get a mixed response of “Its a boy name!!!” and “Beautiful name for a girl!” (oh, and “That’s a horrible name” … but whatever).
So aaaaaaanyway: “[name]Madison[/name]? Boy name, Girl name or Unisex name?”
It’s 100% Unisex. I can see it going either way.
To me its all girl since I have only seen it on girls.
I think it could be unisex, but I’ve seen it on about 20 little girls over the last few years so I think most people would think it’s a girls name.
Knowing that it started as a boys name I see it was a unisex name now. I only know 2 [name]Madison[/name]'s. 1 is a girl and the other is my brother-in-laws mn. Since it’s used so much on girls I would only ever use it as a mn for boys now.
It’s a boy’s name.
I don’t particularly like it for either sex, but I’ve seen it on both. In terms of use, it’s unisex but is used more by girls. But it’s roots are masculine, as it means “son of [name]Maud[/name].”
It’s got ‘son’ in it so it’s a boys name.
I think nowadays [name]Madison[/name] is all girl because interacting with half a dozen girl Maddies on a daily basis makes it pretty hard to imagine [name]Madison[/name] on a boy.
Girl’s name. You can’t use the -son suffix as an absolute rule. [name]Case[/name] in point: [name]Allison[/name].
My impression is that ‘[name]Madison[/name]’ has been pretty thoroughly co-opted by the girls in the past 15 years. I’ve only ever heard the name used on females - and lots and lots of females, for that matter.
It is a boys name, the meaning alone confirms that “[name]Son[/name] of [name]Maude[/name]”, however because it’s used so prevalently for girls, and has been for years upon years, it’s forced to be unisex.
I see it as a boys name that’s now pushed to be unisex.
Yes you can when the -son suffix means “[name]Son[/name] of”. [name]Allison[/name] doesn’t qualify as a pointmaker because it has a different origin, and the -son in it does not mean “[name]Son[/name] of”.
[name]Madison[/name], [name]Addison[/name], [name]Emerson[/name] are male English names that mean “[name]Son[/name] of -”, [name]Allison[/name] is a girls name that is a [name]Norman[/name] French diminutive of Aalis ([name]Alice[/name]).
I think you will get a different reaction depending on where you live. Here in the Western United States it is a fairly common name for Girls, I know quite a few. However, I had a cousin who moved to [name]Washington[/name] DC and named her first daughter [name]Madison[/name] and there she got a lot of comments of it being a boys name and a strange pick for a little white girl. There may be regional differences.
In a vacuum, boys name. -son.
In reality, unisex. leaning girl due to the popularity.
It does qualify as a pointmaker when people are saying “it’s a boy’s name simply because it ends in those 3 letters.”
My point was that name origins, as you pointed out, are different than a name simply having the letters S, O, and N at its end. [name]Madison[/name]'s origin comes from “[name]Son[/name] of…” [name]Allison[/name], as you also pointed out, does not. Yet they both end in “-son.” So having that suffix does not, as some were claiming, automatically make it a boy’s name.
As for my opinion that it’s a girls name, it’s just that: my opinion. Different regions of the world do not use names in the same way. If the OP lives in a place comfortable with [name]Madison[/name] as a boy’s name, go for it. Cheers 
I’ve never met a [name]Madison[/name] so going by sound and the -son prefix I see it as a male name
I consider it unisex because it is originally a boys name and the meaning of the name is masculine, but it is being used predominantly on girls now days.
It’s a boy name turned unisex technically. I much prefer it on a boy though.