girls:
142.5k births since 1980
#278 (95th percentile)
boys:
13.3k births since 1880
#1007 (78th percentile)
overall:
155.8k births since 1880
#484 (94th percentile)
The name Addison is the #484 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 155,791 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #278 (95.2% percentile) for all time with 142,510 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #1,007 (78.0% percentile) for all time with 13,281 births since 1880.
Addison has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1980 for girls).
The name Addison has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.5% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1998, the name was more popular for boys (75.8% boys from 1880 to 1997), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (95.7% girls from 1998 to 2023).
For girls, Addison reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 99.0% percentile (ranked #11) with 5,645 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 5,645 births per million (ranked 99.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Addison ranks #60 for girls (93.8% percentile) with 2,012 births per million, which is 35.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Addison reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 43.2% percentile (ranked #497) with 203 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 209 births per million (ranked 43.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Addison ranks #844 for boys (7.4% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 18.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Addison".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Addison. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.1% confident that Addison is pronounced as A-dih-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-duh-suhn, at 29.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 D IH0 S AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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