Addison — #68 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Addison

The Social Security Administration has registered 145,882 babies named Addison between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Addison currently holds the #68 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 11,949 babies received it in a single year. Addison is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 13,363 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Addison performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 71,003 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Addison shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 13,083 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Addison in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Addison 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 145,882 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.