Addai

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Addai has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Addai, 2021

1 in 424,000

Addai over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Addai: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Addai means

Addai is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Addai is used in Italian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Addai between 2009 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2009; its best national rank was #8,810 in 2010.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Addai?

Addai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 424,000; 8 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 219,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 293,719 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Addai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Addai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Addais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Addai was born before 2017 — so the typical Addai is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 52; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Addai rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2009 (8)
Years since peak: 16; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,810; 2010

Spellings of Addai

Addai is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 75.9% against Addai's <0.01%.

Adam75.9%580,378
Aidan15.5%118,431
Adan4.1%31,478
Aydan0.80%6,134
Adrain0.56%4,252
Aedan0.50%3,862
Adnan0.39%2,996
Adair0.23%1,797

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Addai around the world

Where Addai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2012–2012
#4,805
in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Addai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,810; 2010
Peak year: 2009; 8 that year
First recorded: 2009
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 52
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Addai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Addonis Addiel Addicus Adden Addis Addan Addae Addam Addy Addix Addax Odai Addyson Kordai Add Jahdai Addox Shaddai Addie Cordai Adderly Addler Dai Addisen

Sibling names for Addai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Diya Gisele Maliah Cailyn Shira Dalila Kylah Ireland

For a brother

Chace Teagan Konner Jovani Braiden Draven Jerimiah Kaeden

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