Addison
Addison was given to 2,971 girls in 2025, #84 among girls’ names; 162,320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 159,000 Americans named Addison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Addison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Addison mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Addison is “a female given name transferred from the surname popular in the 2000s, following Alison and Madison.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
A patronymic surname from a medieval diminutive form of Adam + -son.
[ˈæɾɪsən]
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Addison?
#84 among girls’ names, 2025
Addison fell from #24 in 2015 to #84 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.8 to 1.8 per 1,000.
12,290 babies in 2007, the peak
Addison peaked in 2007, when 12,290 babies were given it (11,949 girls, #11 among girls’ names). The 3,033 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,971 | #84 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 3,335 | #68 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 3,536 | #62 | 2.2 |
| 2022 | 3,968 | #54 | 2.4 |
| 2021 | 4,490 | #45 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | 4,497 | #47 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 4,495 | #47 | 2.7 |
| 2018 | 5,232 | #35 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 5,639 | #34 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 6,341 | #29 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,735 | #24 | 3.8 |
| 2014 | 7,010 | #24 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7,740 | #19 | 4.4 |
| 2012 | 8,183 | #14 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 9,312 | #13 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 10,334 | #11 | 5.8 |
| 2009 | 10,669 | #12 | 5.8 |
| 2008 | 10,767 | #12 | 5.7 |
| 2007 | 11,949 | #11 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 7,622 | #28 | 4.0 |
| 2005 | 3,023 | #106 | 1.6 |
| 2004 | 2,055 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 1,704 | #191 | 0.93 |
| 2002 | 1,455 | #220 | 0.81 |
| 2001 | 1,162 | #271 | 0.65 |
| 2000 | 983 | #322 | 0.54 |
| 1999 | 795 | #369 | 0.45 |
| 1998 | 679 | #403 | 0.38 |
| 1997 | 530 | #476 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 428 | #546 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 315 | #674 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 254 | #797 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 171 | #1,061 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,378 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,487 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,919 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,846 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,642 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,358 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,677 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,096 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Addison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 162,320 Americans recorded as Addison, 92% are girls and 8% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Addison every year since 1996. In 2025 it went to 2,971 girls and 62 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Addison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Addison, and how old are they?
159,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 162,320 Americans ever recorded as Addison. The median Addison alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 128,866 people named Addison (118,913 women and girls, 9,953 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 137,049 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 125 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 391 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 388 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 85,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 66,900 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Addison born?
The states with the most babies named Addison are Texas, California and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 277 | #102 | 0.8× |
| California | 195 | #166 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 167 | #100 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 132 | #64 | 1.3× |
| New York | 132 | #115 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 131 | #67 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 118 | #77 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 112 | #71 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 95 | #87 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 93 | #70 | 1.4× |
Where Addison is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Addison is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Addison with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 200,891 babies since 1880, Addison is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,033 of their 3,388 babies (90%), again the most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Addison
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Addison and names like it
- Compare Addison and AddysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAddison peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Addison since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Addison: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Addison.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Addison alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.