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Addalynn vs Addisyn

American parents have registered 10,117 Addisyns since 1880, against 2,316 Addalynns. Addisyn is still ahead, with 147 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Addalynn against Addisyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Addalynn Addisyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Addisyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Addalynn had 172 and Addisyn had 298.

Side by side

  Addalynn Addisyn
Total US births 2,31610,117
Most in one year 218835
Babies in 2025 52147
Estimated living today 2,30010,000
Median age today 813
Peak year 20152012
Best rank 1,155th girls374th girls
Rank in 2025 3,100th1,458th
First recorded 20021995
Girls / boys 2,316 / 010,117 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Addisyns alive today are over 13; half the Addalynns are over 8. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Addalynn and Addisyn.