Addy

Where Addy comes from

Diminutive forms with -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Addy
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #7,680 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2011
    Peak, #2,763
    63 babies named Addy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,560.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adeline, Adrienne, and Addison, from the Germanic languages or French or transferred from the surname.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Adam, from Hebrew.
Namesakes

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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.