Addis

Last seen for girls in 2016 at #16,215 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 74.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
1912 · 7 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
443
since 1912

Addis over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201926peak #1,763, 1909peak #2,045, 1912girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#8,9108
2024—#12,3495
2023—#12,2395
2022—#8,3009
2021—#9,7147
2020—#10,6056
2019—#6,77712
2018——
2017—#7,54610
2016#16,2155#6,34913
2015—#9,5687
2014#14,5586#8,7818
2013—#7,02611
2012#13,4837#10,7706
2011—#7,50210
2010—#9,6937
2009——
2008#17,5045#9,8717
2007—#8,1739
2006—#10,6626
2005#14,5026#9,1157
2004#7,39115—
2003#15,7845#10,8945
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2001—#10,5565
2000—#10,3495
1999#14,4115#7,8747
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1997—#8,1106
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1995#13,3865—
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1991—#8,2365
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1981—#6,2625
1980—#4,1349
1979—#6,0565
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1976—#5,5875
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1958—#3,9445
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1955—#3,5056
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1951—#3,0667
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1948—#2,7888
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1945—#3,3385
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1943—#3,5385
1942—#2,26811
1941—#3,5055
1940—#3,4595
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1938—#2,6468
1937—#3,5185
1936#4,1815#2,8547
1935—#3,6455
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1932#3,9016—
1931#3,8486#2,8648
1930—#3,2897
1929—#3,5596
1928#3,7437#3,6976
1927—#3,1518
1926#4,8515#3,3857
1925—#3,4087
1924#4,0027#3,5057
1923—#3,8226
1922#4,4456#4,3075
1921#4,0237#2,37613
1920—#2,60211
1919#4,2516#2,38512
1918#4,8095#3,3687
1917#4,0836#2,9568
1916#3,0319#2,38911
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1914#3,1886#2,2719
1913—#2,4966
1912—#2,0457
1911#2,4635—
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1909#1,7637—
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First appearance
1912

The first year at least five boys were named Addis! It came in at #2,045, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Addis is popular in 1926

No state had 5 or more boys named Addis in 1926, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 3,439 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #8,910)
  • 1,695 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #8,910)
  • 658 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 1912 at #2,045 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1915, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 61,420
  • Highest: 1 in 61,420 boys born in 1912 were named Addis (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 19.0% of all boys named Addis (84) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2013
  • Mostly girls until 2012, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s60#2,045 (1912)#2,559
1920s76#2,376 (1921)#3,381
1930s40#2,646 (1938)#3,136
1940s39#2,268 (1942)#3,149
1950s18#3,066 (1951)#3,505
1960s0——
1970s10#5,587 (1976)#5,822
1980s14#4,134 (1980)#5,198
1990s18#7,874 (1999)#8,073
2000s44#8,173 (2007)#9,946
2010s84#6,349 (2016)#8,224
2020s40#8,300 (2022)#10,353

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.

Addis in 1926

girls
#4,851
5 births · 1 in 237,080 girls
boys
#3,385
7 births · 1 in 158,644 boys

Top girls' names in 1926

  1. #1Mary67,832
  2. #2Dorothy36,618
  3. #3Betty32,964
  4. #4Helen26,886
  5. #5Margaret23,072
  6. #6Ruth20,225
  7. #7Doris16,295
  8. #8Virginia16,161
  9. #9Mildred13,547
  10. #10Frances13,355
  11. #4,851Addis5

Top boys' names in 1926

  1. #1Robert61,130
  2. #2John56,108
  3. #3James53,196
  4. #4William51,922
  5. #5Charles29,521
  6. #6George25,910
  7. #7Richard25,143
  8. #8Joseph23,756
  9. #9Donald20,912
  10. #10Edward19,375
  11. #3,385Addis7
More about 1926

girls

1,185,401 girls got a published name in 1926; 1 in 237,080 of them was named Addis, which outranked 13.7% of the 5,622 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Addis
  1. #4,306Zera6
  2. #4,306Zilla6
  3. #4,306Zollie6
  4. #4,851Addis5
  5. #4,851Adean5
  6. #4,851Adie5
  7. #4,851Adlean5

Tied with 771 names at #4,851; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1925
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,047Janell#1,795 → #748
  2. ↑ 389Madalyn#1,225 → #836
  3. ↑ 382Evangelina#1,324 → #942
  4. ↑ 379Carla#1,252 → #873
  5. ↑ 351Vilma#1,020 → #669
Fallers
  1. ↓ 597Albertine#944 → #1,541
  2. ↓ 462Cleora#895 → #1,357
  3. ↓ 461Lorrayne#988 → #1,449
  4. ↓ 453Hermina#996 → #1,449
  5. ↓ 307Ethelene#913 → #1,220

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

boys

1,110,505 boys got a published name in 1926; 1 in 158,644 of them was named Addis, which outranked 30.0% of the 4,837 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Addis
  1. #3,139Zebedee8
  2. #3,139Zeke8
  3. #3,139Zoltan8
  4. #3,385Addis7
  5. #3,385Abelino7
  6. #3,385Ad7
  7. #3,385Adalbert7
  8. #3,708Abrom6
  9. #3,708Ada6
  10. #3,708Adalberto6

Tied with 322 names at #3,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1925
Risers
  1. ↑ 477Jonnie#1,332 → #855
  2. ↑ 433Jorge#1,425 → #992
  3. ↑ 410Faustino#1,390 → #980
  4. ↑ 404Adelbert#1,246 → #842
  5. ↑ 381Cameron#1,164 → #783
Fallers
  1. ↓ 531Okey#984 → #1,515
  2. ↓ 459Florentino#973 → #1,432
  3. ↓ 407Rexford#924 → #1,331
  4. ↓ 380Marshal#973 → #1,353
  5. ↓ 378Coolidge#746 → #1,124

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

See the top 100 for 1926 →