Add
Add was last recorded in 1945, when 5 babies were given it; 102 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Add by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Add?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,337, in 1945; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1922, the peak
Add peaked in 1922, when 12 boys were given it, #2,486 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 5 | #3,337 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,429 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,734 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,149 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,276 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,699 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,201 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,238 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,486 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,870 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 5 | #4,182 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,177 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,827 | 5.9 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,101 | 41.8 |
| 1892 | 6 | #956 | 49.2 |
| 1891 | 5 | #964 | 49.4 |
| 1890 | 5 | #994 | 45.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Add a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Add has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Add: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Add, and how old are they?
An estimated 9 Americans named Add and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 162 people named Add (72 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Add rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,213 babies since 1880, Add is the third most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 52 babies recorded by SSA was a Add (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Add and names like it
- Compare Add and AhadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAdd peaked in 1922.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Add.
- Names starting with AMost given first.