Addey

Girls' name

Earth, man, soil, light brown, through Adam

Addey has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2005, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Addey, 2005

1 in 641,000

Addey over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Addey: meaning, origin, and history

Earth, man, soil, light brown, through Adam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Addey means

Addey belongs to the name family reached through Addey → Adam. Its meaning is “earth, man, soil, light brown”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a diminutive of the given name Adam.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Addey (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Addey is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Addey between 2004 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2005; its best national rank was #14,518 in 2005.

How common is Addey?

Addey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005: 1 in 641,000; 6 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only: 1 in 308,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 444,107 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Addey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 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 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Addey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Addeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Addey was born before 2005 — so the typical Addey is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Addey 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 2005 (6)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #14,518; 2005

Spellings of Addey

Addey is not the most common spelling — Audrey is, with 66.0% against Addey's <0.01%.

Audrey66.0%305,883
Hadley10.1%46,595
Addie9.8%45,361
Abbey3.8%17,509
Arden1.6%7,518
Adley1.3%6,160
Audry0.87%4,029
Addelyn0.58%2,709

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.

Addey by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #14,518; 2005
Peak year: 2005; 6 that year
First recorded: 2004
Last recorded: 2005
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Addey

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

Addia Addah Addle Addell Addiah Kodey Addysn Addlie Addine Addaly Addeson Addylan Addysun Addisan Addisun Addaley Addlee Addesyn Judey Zadey Addlyn Addylen Addalin Cindey

Sibling names for Addey

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

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Jamya Yajaira Riya Dayanara Makena

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon

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