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Addeline vs Addisyn

American parents have registered 10,117 Addisyns since 1880, against 571 Addelines. Addisyn is still ahead, with 147 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Addeline against Addisyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Addeline Addisyn

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 32 years in which either name was published, Addisyn for 30 years and Addeline for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Addeline Addisyn
Total US births 57110,117
Most in one year 52835
Babies in 2025 31147
Estimated living today 56010,000
Median age today 913
Peak year 20162012
Best rank 3,139th girls374th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th1,458th
First recorded 19211995
Girls / boys 571 / 010,117 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Addisyns alive today are over 13; half the Addelines are over 9. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Addeline Addisyn
England and Wales 39

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: Addeline and Addisyn.