Addison

Addison is the 2,023rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 17,465 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,100.

By the numbers

People: 17,465
Rank: 2,023rd
How common: 1 in 17,100
Per 100,000: 5.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

A patronymic surname from a medieval diminutive form.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Addison described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 48.4%
Black, not Hispanic 42.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Addison

Joseph Addison (1672–1719)English essayist, poet, playwright and politician
Thomas Addison (1793–1860)19th-century British physician and scientist
Colin Addison (1940–2025)Footballer
Miles Addison (born 1989)English footballer
Chris Addison (born 1971)British comedian
John Addison (1920–1998)British composer

People named Addison with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Addison

Also a first name

Addison has been given to 162,320 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.