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Adison vs Adisyn

American parents have registered 3,909 Adisons since 1880, against 1,138 Adisyns. Adison is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adison Adisyn

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

Adison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1926 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Adison had 19 and Adisyn had 13.

Side by side

  Adison Adisyn
Total US births 3,9091,138
Most in one year 429115
Babies in 2025 2112
Estimated living today 3,9001,100
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 725th girls1,854th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th8,362nd
First recorded 19261998
Girls / boys 3,249 / 6601,138 / 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 Adisons alive today are over 18; half the Adisyns are over 16. 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: Adison and Adisyn.