Add

Last seen for boys in 1945 at #3,338

Peak · boys
1892 · 6 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
102
since 1890

Add over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Add has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201934peak #956, 1892boys
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five boys were named Add! It came in at #994, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1893–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Add is popular in 1934

No state had 5 or more boys named Add in 1934, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Add
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1945
  • Biggest jump: 31 spots in 1891 (#994 → #963)
Rise & fade · boys
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1892 at #956 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1893, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1890–1892
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,238
  • Highest: 1 in 20,238 boys born in 1891 were named Add (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 269,171 boys born in 1945 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #956 in 1892, was only 1 in 20,339 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 33.3% of all boys named Add (34) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s21#956 (1892)#1,004
1900s0——
1910s17#3,177 (1916)#3,727
1920s34#2,486 (1922)#3,698
1930s12#3,147 (1936)#3,212
1940s18#2,732 (1943)#3,167

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Add in 1934

boys
#3,277
6 births · 1 in 172,099 boys

Top boys' names in 1934

  1. #1Robert55,843
  2. #2James54,270
  3. #3John46,743
  4. #4William40,175
  5. #5Richard33,167
  6. #6Donald30,408
  7. #7Charles29,790
  8. #8George18,500
  9. #9Thomas17,373
  10. #10Joseph17,111
  11. #3,277Add6
More about 1934

boys

1,032,596 boys got a published name in 1934; 1 in 172,099 of them was named Add, which outranked 22.1% of the 4,205 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Add
  1. #2,973Wirt7
  2. #2,973Woodford7
  3. #2,973Zeke7
  4. #3,277Add6
  5. #3,277Adalbert6
  6. #3,277Adolphe6
  7. #3,277Adolpho6
  8. #3,679Abb5
  9. #3,679Acencion5
  10. #3,679Achille5

Tied with 401 names at #3,277; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1933
Risers
  1. ↑ 746Lanny#1,361 → #615
  2. ↑ 630Kerry#1,586 → #956
  3. ↑ 620Marland#1,456 → #836
  4. ↑ 404Kirk#1,202 → #798
  5. ↑ 350Valentin#1,281 → #931
Fallers
  1. ↓ 730Neville#995 → #1,725
  2. ↓ 616Garner#770 → #1,386
  3. ↓ 520Vivian#905 → #1,425
  4. ↓ 488Finis#869 → #1,357
  5. ↓ 464Malcom#961 → #1,425

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1934 →