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Addie vs Addisyn

American parents have registered 46,079 Addies since 1880, against 10,117 Addisyns. Addie is still ahead, with 176 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Addie 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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Addie for 129 years and Addisyn for 17 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Addie Addisyn
Total US births 46,07910,117
Most in one year 922835
Babies in 2025 176147
Estimated living today 13,00010,000
Median age today 3713
Peak year 19202012
Best rank 211th girls374th girls
Rank in 2025 1,272nd1,458th
First recorded 18801995
Girls / boys 45,361 / 71810,117 / 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 Addies alive today are over 37; half the Addisyns are over 13. That is 24 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Addie Addisyn
England and Wales 919

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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