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Adilynn vs Adison

American parents have registered 3,909 Adisons since 1880, against 3,252 Adilynns. But in 2025 it was Adilynn that was commoner, 77 babies to 21.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adilynn against Adison, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adilynn Adison

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 41 years in which either name was published, Adison for 27 years and Adilynn for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Adilynn Adison
Total US births 3,2523,909
Most in one year 348429
Babies in 2025 7721
Estimated living today 3,2003,900
Median age today 918
Peak year 20152007
Best rank 808th girls725th girls
Rank in 2025 2,354th7,885th
First recorded 20021926
Girls / boys 3,252 / 03,249 / 660

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 Adisons alive today are over 18; half the Adilynns are over 9. That is 9 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: Adilynn and Adison.