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Addy

#4,546 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Addy has been given to 1,520 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #4,546 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Addy, 2025

1 in 111,000

Addy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Addy: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

French, Germanic languages, surname transfer and Hebrew

What Addy means

Addy has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Addy

A separate documented entry treats Addy as a diminutive of Adelaide. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Addy as a diminutive of Adam. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Addy is used in English. Its origins include French, Germanic languages, surname transfer and Hebrew.

Addy is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adelaide, Adeline, Adrienne, Addison and Adam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,498 girls were recorded with the name Addy between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2011; its best national rank was #2,763 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,547 in 2020 to #4,546 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,704 in 2015 to #4,546 in 2025.

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Addy between 1983 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2009; its best national rank was #6,242 in 1983.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Addy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,546
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Addy 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 2025 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Addy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Addys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Addy was born before 2009 — so the typical Addy is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,498
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (504).

Is Addy 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
+12
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−999
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−842
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.6%
Peak was 2011 (63)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,763
2011

Spellings of Addy

Addy is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 43.5% against Addy's 0.09%.

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 Addy is used

Across 1910–2025, Addy was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 494,048 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Addy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Addy around the world

Where Addy 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.

  • Canada
    2008–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1994–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Addy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,546
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 999
Best rank ever
#2,763
2011
Peak year
2011
63 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,498
Count in 2025
30

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,242
1983
Peak year
2009
6 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Addy

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

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