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Adina vs Adison

American parents have registered 7,364 Adinas since 1880, against 3,909 Adisons. Adina is still ahead, with 179 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adina 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 114 years in which either name was published, Adina for 101 years and Adison for 13 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Adina Adison
Total US births 7,3643,909
Most in one year 179429
Babies in 2025 17921
Estimated living today 6,9003,900
Median age today 2718
Peak year 20252007
Best rank 1,250th girls725th girls
Rank in 2025 1,250th7,885th
First recorded 18801926
Girls / boys 7,364 / 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 Adinas alive today are over 27; half the Adisons are over 18. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Adina Adison
England and Wales 55049
France 17010

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: Adina and Adison.