Addison
For 2025 the count puts Addison at #84 nationwide, with the crowd thinning around it. Modern by the data's own clock (1980 is its first appearance), at 148,893 bearers so far.
Addison’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Addison, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Addison since 1980
Addison peaked in 2007 at #11; #84 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Addison is most common
Addison is most common in Vermont: 1.23% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Wyoming (0.62%) and New Hampshire (0.61%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Addison
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Allison
#103 in 2025
Athena
#109 in 2025
Ariana
#128 in 2025
Alana
#140 in 2025
Abigail
#41 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ariella
#174 in 2025
Antonio
#176 in 2025 · Latin
Adalynn
#184 in 2025
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About Addison
How common is Addison today?
For 2025 the count puts Addison at #84 nationwide, with the crowd thinning around it. The full curve since 1980 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Addison mean?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Addison. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
What names go with Addison?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Allison, Athena and Ariana, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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