Addis — #12385 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Addis

The Social Security Administration has registered 435 babies named Addis between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Addis currently holds the #12385 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Addis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 152 additional births since 1909.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Addis performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Addis shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Addis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Addis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 435 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.