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Addison vs Addysen

American parents have registered 162,320 Addisons since 1880, against 1,129 Addysens. Addison is still ahead, with 3,033 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Addison against Addysen, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Addison Addysen

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

Addison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Addison had 3,416 and Addysen had 42.

Side by side

  Addison Addysen
Total US births 162,3201,129
Most in one year 12,290125
Babies in 2025 3,0338
Estimated living today 159,0001,100
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 11th girls1,734th girls
Rank in 2025 84th10,917th
First recorded 18801998
Girls / boys 148,893 / 13,4271,129 / 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.

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: Addison and Addysen.