Addison
Addison reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 11, and has been recorded 162,320 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 84th. About 159,000 Addisons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Addison
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Addison crossed from boys to girls in 1996, and has stayed there for 30 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 98% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 107 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 162,320
- Estimated living today
- 159,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 11th
- Rank in 2025
- 84th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 148,893 / 13,427
How old the living Addisons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 162,320 babies given the name since 1880, about 159,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 117,000 of them are children and 460 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
A patronymic surname from a medieval diminutive form.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Addisons
- Addison Rae (born 2000)American singer and actress
- Addison Timlin (born 1991)American actress
- Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926)U.S. zoologist
- Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866)American conchologist
- Addison Brown (1830–1913)United States federal judge, astronomer and botanist
- Addison Richards (1902–1964)American actor
- Addison Riecke (born 2004)American actress and model
People named Addison with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Addison is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Addison is most concentrated in Utah (1.9×), Nevada (1.7×), Idaho (1.6×), Tennessee (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Addison peaked:
Addison elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Addison | 1,676 | 281st |
| England and Wales boys | Addison | 1,090 | 515th |
| New Zealand girls | Addison | 867 | 46th |
| Scotland girls | Addison | 323 | 123rd |
| Ireland girls | Addison | 249 | 247th |
| France girls | Addison | 115 | 2,362nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Addison | 100 | 142nd |
| France boys | Addison | 25 | 6,874th |
| Switzerland girls | Addison | 20 | 1,168th |
| Scotland boys | Addison | 19 | 544th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Addison | 7 | 365th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Addison: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Addison | 4 | 0.000% | 1,346th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Addison | 16 | 0.004% | 517th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Addison among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Addison | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Addison against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.