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Addeline vs Addyson

American parents have registered 16,930 Addysons since 1880, against 571 Addelines. Addyson is still ahead, with 154 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Addeline against Addyson, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Addeline Addyson

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 37 years in which either name was published, Addyson for 36 years and Addeline for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Addeline Addyson
Total US births 57116,930
Most in one year 521,629
Babies in 2025 31154
Estimated living today 56017,000
Median age today 914
Peak year 20162010
Best rank 3,139th girls192nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th1,413th
First recorded 19211990
Girls / boys 571 / 016,897 / 33

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 Addysons alive today are over 14; half the Addelines are over 9. That is 5 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 Addyson
England and Wales 343

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 Addyson.