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Addi vs Addilynn

American parents have registered 4,524 Addilynns since 1880, against 517 Addis. Addilynn is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Addi against Addilynn, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Addi Addilynn

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 36 years in which either name was published, Addilynn for 19 years and Addi for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Addi Addilynn
Total US births 5174,524
Most in one year 28492
Babies in 2025 12136
Estimated living today 5104,500
Median age today 138
Peak year 20232016
Best rank 4,746th girls610th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd1,548th
First recorded 19772003
Girls / boys 517 / 04,524 / 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 Addis alive today are over 13; half the Addilynns are over 8. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Addi and Addilynn.