girls:
152 births since 1909
#5564 (3rd percentile)
boys:
430 births since 1912
#4156 (9th percentile)
overall:
582 births since 1909
#7157 (7th percentile)
The name Addis is the #7,157 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 582 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,156 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 430 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,564 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1909.
Addis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Addis is available in 64 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023 (59 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Addis has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Addis were boys. Interestingly, until around 1913, the name was more popular for girls (63.2% girls from 1909 to 1912), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (75.1% boys from 1913 to 2023).
For boys, Addis reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #542) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Addis ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 17.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Addis reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #927) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 19 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Addis".
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Our model is 64.1% confident that Addis is pronounced as A-dihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-dihs, at 17.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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