Fun Facts About the Name Addisyn
- More than 10 thousand babies named Addisyn: U.S. records list 10,114 babies given the name Addisyn from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Addisyn Mean?
Addisyn is a modern respelling of Addison, an English surname that became a given name. The surname is patronymic: it is built from the Middle English personal name Adde or Addy - a short, familiar form of Adam - plus the suffix -son. Literally, then, it means "son of Adde," or "son of Adam." Adam goes back to Hebrew אָדָם (adam), meaning "man" or "human being," a word related to אֲדָמָה (adamah), "ground" or "earth." That link has traditionally been read as "earth" or "red earth," but the exact relationship between the two Hebrew words is debated rather than settled, so "son of Adam" is the safe, established meaning.
Addisyn Name History & Origins
The name behind Addisyn is the English surname Addison, one of the many patronymic surnames formed with -son that grew out of the medieval habit of identifying a person as the child of a known individual. In this case the father's familiar name was Adde or Addy, a common medieval shortening of Adam.
Addison later moved from surname to first name. It was used for boys in the nineteenth century, and in the late twentieth century it became considerably more common for girls. Addisyn is a separate, recent step: a respelled variant that writes the same sounds with y in place of the vowel of the second syllable - the same pattern seen in respellings such as Madisyn and Emersyn. This change affects only the spelling. The derivation from Adde plus -son, and the meaning that comes with it, is unchanged.
How Popular is the Name Addisyn?
Addisyn recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2012. Its best rank was #374 in 2012.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,458 | 147 | 0.0091% |
| 2024 | #1,433 | 154 | 0.0095% |
| 2023 | #1,254 | 183 | 0.0114% |
| 2022 | #1,086 | 230 | 0.0140% |
| 2021 | #914 | 294 | 0.0179% |
| 2020 | #885 | 301 | 0.0186% |
| 2019 | #893 | 298 | 0.0178% |
| 2018 | #767 | 355 | 0.0209% |
| 2017 | #637 | 461 | 0.0267% |
| 2016 | #599 | 502 | 0.0283% |
| 2015 | #583 | 520 | 0.0291% |
| 2014 | #535 | 582 | 0.0326% |
| 2013 | #403 | 762 | 0.0434% |
| 2012 | #374 | 835 | 0.0474% |
| 2011 | #387 | 821 | 0.0467% |
| 2010 | #402 | 801 | 0.0451% |
| 2009 | #434 | 732 | 0.0399% |
| 2008 | #555 | 555 | 0.0294% |
| 2007 | #612 | 491 | 0.0255% |
| 2006 | #616 | 471 | 0.0248% |
| 2005 | #1,095 | 217 | 0.0117% |
| 2004 | #1,654 | 117 | 0.0064% |
| 2003 | #2,577 | 62 | 0.0034% |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 | 0.0037% |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 2000 | #3,121 | 44 | 0.0024% |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 1998 | #6,362 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1997 | #7,292 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1996 | #11,822 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #13,407 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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