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Addisyn vs Addyson

American parents have registered 16,930 Addysons since 1880, against 10,117 Addisyns. Addyson is still ahead, with 154 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Addisyn 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 2023, when Addisyn had 183 and Addyson had 183.

Side by side

  Addisyn Addyson
Total US births 10,11716,930
Most in one year 8351,629
Babies in 2025 147154
Estimated living today 10,00017,000
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20122010
Best rank 374th girls192nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,458th1,413th
First recorded 19951990
Girls / boys 10,117 / 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.

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 Addisyn Addyson
England and Wales 943

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: Addisyn and Addyson.