Primarily a girl's name · 92% girls
Addison is a unisex given name derived from the surname Addison. It has increased in use in the Anglosphere in recent years, perhaps due to its similarity to the fashionable name Madison.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Addison yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Addison ties Jaxon for the steepest decline in this batch, both down 53% across the last ten years. Both measures hit their high point together in 2007 — 11,949 births, #11 nationally, a genuine near-top-ten run — before falling to 3,327 births and #68 by 2024.
There's no history here before 1980 at all, unusual for this range of the dataset — a full century of the dataset with no recorded births under this name.
TikTok star Addison Rae is the standout contemporary bearer, alongside former US Secretary of State James Baker, whose middle name was Addison.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | #9,099 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,225 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,158 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,679 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,903 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,360 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,647 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,851 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,923 |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,492 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,381 |
| 1993 | 171 | #1,063 |
| 1994 | 254 | #798 |
| 1995 | 315 | #674 |
| 1996 | 428 | #546 |
| 1997 | 530 | #476 |
| 1998 | 679 | #403 |
| 1999 | 795 | #369 |
| 2000 | 983 | #322 |
| 2001 | 1,162 | #271 |
| 2002 | 1,455 | #220 |
| 2003 | 1,704 | #191 |
| 2004 | 2,055 | #160 |
| 2005 | 3,023 | #106 |
| 2006 | 7,622 | #28 |
| 2007 | 11,949 | #11 |
| 2008 | 10,767 | #12 |
| 2009 | 10,669 | #12 |
| 2010 | 10,332 | #11 |
| 2011 | 9,311 | #13 |
| 2012 | 8,183 | #14 |
| 2013 | 7,740 | #19 |
| 2014 | 7,008 | #24 |
| 2015 | 6,734 | #24 |
| 2016 | 6,336 | #29 |
| 2017 | 5,635 | #34 |
| 2018 | 5,231 | #35 |
| 2019 | 4,493 | #47 |
| 2020 | 4,493 | #47 |
| 2021 | 4,489 | #45 |
| 2022 | 3,962 | #54 |
| 2023 | 3,532 | #62 |
| 2024 | 3,327 | #68 |
