Addis
#8,919 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Addis has been given to 595 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #8,919 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.
Babies named Addis, 2025
1 in 414,000
Addis over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Addis over time
In 2025, Addis went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Addis?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,919
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Addis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Addis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Addiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Addis was born before 1951 — so the typical Addis is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 19.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 228
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (84).
Is Addis 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
- +3,461
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,700
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +665
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 61.5%
- Peak was 1921 (13)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.6% average annual change
Spellings of Addis
Addis is not the most common spelling — Eddie is, with 67.3% against Addis's 0.14%.
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.
Where Addis is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Addis was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,148 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Addis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Addis is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Addis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Addis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Addis around the world
Where Addis 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 & Wales2007–2007#4,333in 2007
- France2014–2014#6,493in 2014
- South Australia1946–2006#657in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Addis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Addis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Addis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.