Addie

Where Addie comes from

Diminutives formed with -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Addie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    Addie Joss born
    American baseball player
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #83 among girls — 274 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #76
    406 babies named Addie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1905
    Addie McPhail born
    American actress
  5. 1952
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #616.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Adele, Adeline, Adelaide, and Addison or other names beginning with Ad-.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Adam and Adrian or other names beginning with Ad-.
Namesakes
  • Addie Joss · American baseball player, 1880–1911
  • Addie McPhail · American actress, 1905–2003
  • Addie L. Ballou · American poet, feminist, suffragist, artist, 1837–1916
  • Addie L. Wyatt · American labor leader, 1924–2012
  • Addie Viola Smith · American attorney, 1893–1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.