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Addelynn vs Addilyn

American parents have registered 9,862 Addilyns since 1880, against 882 Addelynns. Addilyn is still ahead, with 256 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Addelynn 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

Addilyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Addelynn had 28 and Addilyn had 137.

Side by side

  Addelynn Addilyn
Total US births 8829,862
Most in one year 841,045
Babies in 2025 32256
Estimated living today 8809,800
Median age today 98
Peak year 20162016
Best rank 2,269th girls312th girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd987th
First recorded 20061999
Girls / boys 882 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Addelynn Addilyn
England and Wales 3102

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: Addelynn and Addilyn.