Addi
Feminine · “Hebrew adam”
The -i ending peaked in 1972 with Jenni, Toni, Randi and Terri, disappeared for forty years, and came back. Addi peaks in 2023. A naming device seems to need about half a century out of sight before it can return, which is roughly the length of time it takes for the generation that used it to stop being the reference point.
How old is the name Addi?
Addi first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Addi alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 500 people named Addi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Addi most popular?
Addi peaked in 2023, reaching #4746 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 3,616 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Addison to Addi
Our story of Addi
Our reading is that naming devices have a refractory period and it is measurable. A spelling or ending in heavy use becomes strongly associated with the cohort that used it, and while that cohort is alive and adult the device reads as belonging to them: a name spelled with an -i in 1990 read as a woman in her twenties, not as a child. Once the cohort ages past the point of being anyone's reference, the association fades and the device becomes available again. Fifty years is a reasonable estimate of that interval, and it matches other cases: the -ie names of the 1880s returned in the 2010s, the mid-century -lyn ending returned after the 1990s, and the -i ending is back now. What comes back is never quite the same, because the stems have changed, and Addi sits on a stem that did not exist in 1972.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew adam, with the English surname Addison
Addi is a short form of Addison, Adeline, Adelaide or Addisyn. Addison is a patronymic surname, son of Adam, from Hebrew adam, a human being. Adelaide and Adeline descend from Germanic adal, noble, and heid, kind or sort. Which lies behind a given bearer is not recoverable. The -i ending is a spelling device rather than a source. It peaks in 2023.
How the name formed
- Addison
- Addi
Related forms: Addie · Addy
Pronouncing Addi
AD-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first, short a. Addi, Addie and Addy are homophones and the ending is the only difference.
Nicknames for Addi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 202328 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4746reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%12 in 2025, from 20
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Addi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Addie in English — spelling variant
- Addy in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Addis among us
people named Addi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Addi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Addi
- #8362
- Addi on the 2025 chart
- #895
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Addi went to 12 girls in 2025, but Addy, Adi and Ady are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 65, which makes it the 895th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,467 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 133,939 for Addi itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ngozi test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Addi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ngozi climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ngozi's path sketches the road Addi is walking now.
Addi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Addi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Addi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Short, warm and easy for a child to write.
- It works as a full name or as a short form of several longer ones.
- The sound is universally familiar.
- It reads as a nickname to most people.
- Three spellings of the same sound circulate.
- Which longer name it stands for is not recoverable.
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Frequently asked
- How many Addis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Addi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Addi?
- Addi is one of 4 recorded spellings. Addy is the more common one — 30 births in 2025 against 12 for Addi.
- How popular is the name Addi in 2025?
- Addi ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Addi?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Addi — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Addi with classmates?
- Addi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Addi
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