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Addisen vs Addyson

American parents have registered 16,930 Addysons since 1880, against 1,210 Addisens. Addyson is still ahead, with 154 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Addisen 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

Addyson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Addisen had 6 and Addyson had 6.

Side by side

  Addisen Addyson
Total US births 1,21016,930
Most in one year 1491,629
Babies in 2025 under 5154
Estimated living today 1,20017,000
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20072010
Best rank 1,537th girls192nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,413th
First recorded 19931990
Girls / boys 1,204 / 616,897 / 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 Addisens alive today are over 16; half the Addysons are over 14. That is 2 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.

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