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Addalynn vs Addilyn

American parents have registered 9,862 Addilyns since 1880, against 2,316 Addalynns. Addilyn is still ahead, with 256 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Addalynn Addilyn

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 26 years in which either name was published, Addilyn for 25 years and Addalynn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Addalynn Addilyn
Total US births 2,3169,862
Most in one year 2181,045
Babies in 2025 52256
Estimated living today 2,3009,800
Median age today 88
Peak year 20152016
Best rank 1,155th girls312th girls
Rank in 2025 3,100th987th
First recorded 20021999
Girls / boys 2,316 / 09,857 / 5

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: Addalynn and Addilyn.