Adison
#7,893 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Adison has been given to 3,909 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #7,893 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 401 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.
Babies named Adison, 2025
1 in 255,000
Adison 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Adison over time
In 2025, Adison went to 62% girls and 38% 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 Adison?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,893
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Adison 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adison. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Adisons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Adison was born before 2007 — so the typical Adison is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 62.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,249
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 62.8% of all recorded uses (2,040).
Is Adison 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
- −1,250
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,568
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,083
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.21×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 3.2%
- Peak was 2007 (401)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Adison
Adison is not the most common spelling — Madison is, with 36.4% against Adison's 0.28%.
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 Adison is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Adison was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 75,734 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 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. Adison has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Adison is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Adison was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,053,395 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Colorado1 in —
- 3Kentucky1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Adison has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Adison around the world
Where Adison 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 & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
- France2008–2011#6,396in 2011
- Canada2005–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia2005–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Adison by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Adison
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Adison
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Adison, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Adison
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.