The Illinois Identification Card Act created an all-purpose ID card. But nobodyâs required to get one. The Act simply says the card âmay be used for identification purposes in any lawful situation.â If you do get one, nothing in the law requires you to carry it with you.
â Madison (girl) Madison [madi-son] as a girls' name (also used less regularly as boys' name Madison) is pronounced MAD-a-son. It is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Madison is son of the mighty warrior. Also possibly variant of Madeline (Hebrew) woman from Magdala, or surname derived from Matthew (Hebrew) gift of the Lord or Matilda (Old German) mighty in battle. The mermaid heroine Madison in the hit film Splash probably influenced the use of the surname and boy's name as a girl's name.
Word Origin and History for Madison Expand. surname attested from early 15c., probably in many cases a variant of Mathieson son of Matthew, but in some cases perhaps son of Maddy, from the pet form of the fem. proper name Maud. The city in Wisconsin, U.S., was named 1836 for U.S. President James Madison, who had died that year. As the name of a popular dance of 1960, its signification is unknown; supposedly it originated in Baltimore.