When we brought Maddie home she was so feisty and bossy and tiny that she changed the whole dynamic of our house. I wanted a sweet girly name for my sweet little girl. My brother, who was living with us at the time, told me that she caused total mayhem in our house; bossing all the other dogs arround and demanding attention, pawing at us when it was time to wake up and growling at the door when she wanted to go potty. The only cute girly name that we came up with that "went well" with Mayhem was Madison. Maddie Mae is short for Miss Madison Mayhem
we also call her crazy girl too.