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Addilyn vs Addisyn

American parents have registered 10,117 Addisyns since 1880, against 9,862 Addilyns. But in 2025 it was Addilyn that was commoner, 256 babies to 147.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Addilyn against Addisyn, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Addilyn 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 31 years in which either name was published, Addisyn for 20 years and Addilyn for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Addilyn Addisyn
Total US births 9,86210,117
Most in one year 1,045835
Babies in 2025 256147
Estimated living today 9,80010,000
Median age today 813
Peak year 20162012
Best rank 312th girls374th girls
Rank in 2025 987th1,458th
First recorded 19991995
Girls / boys 9,857 / 510,117 / 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 Addilyns 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Addilyn Addisyn
England and Wales 1029

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: Addilyn and Addisyn.