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Addilynn vs Addyson

American parents have registered 16,930 Addysons since 1880, against 4,524 Addilynns. Addyson is still ahead, with 154 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Addilynn 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 36 years in which either name was published, Addyson for 35 years and Addilynn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Addilynn Addyson
Total US births 4,52416,930
Most in one year 4921,629
Babies in 2025 136154
Estimated living today 4,50017,000
Median age today 814
Peak year 20162010
Best rank 610th girls192nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,548th1,413th
First recorded 20031990
Girls / boys 4,524 / 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 Addilynns are over 8. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Addilynn Addyson
England and Wales 543

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: Addilynn and Addyson.