Adison
Feminine · “English "son of Adam”
Adison is given to both — 3,249 girls and 660 boys since 1880. See Adison as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Adam means earth, and Genesis says so in a pun. Adam is made from the adamah, the ground, and the two words are one syllable apart — so Addison, son of Adam, is at two removes the child of a man made of soil.
How old is the name Adison?
Adison first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Adison alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 3,200 people named Adison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adison most popular?
Adison peaked in 2007, reaching #725 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 7,160 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adamah to Adison
The story of Adison
The Genesis account has God forming the adam from the dust of the adamah, and the pun is unmistakable in Hebrew and invisible in English. It is one of a set: the woman is ishah because she was taken from ish, a man; Eve is Chavah because she is the mother of all living, chai. The name Adam then traveled through Christianity to become an ordinary European name, produced the medieval English diminutive Addy, and from that the surname Addison — which is where Joseph Addison, co-founder of The Spectator in 1711, got his. The name crossed to American girls in the 1990s and rose sharply; Adison peaks in 2007.
Meaning
English "son of Adam" — Hebrew "earth"
Addison is a patronymic surname meaning son of Addy, a medieval diminutive of Adam. Adam is Hebrew adam, a human being, connected in Genesis to adamah, ground or soil, in an explicit wordplay. Adison is an American respelling with a single d; the change carries no meaning.
How the name formed
- adamah
- Adam
- Addison
- Adison
Related forms: Addison · Addyson
Pronouncing Adison
AD-ih-sun
Three syllables, stress on the first. Addison and Adison are pronounced identically; the doubled d changes nothing audible.
Nicknames for Adison
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 2007401 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #725reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −23.5%13 in 2025, from 17
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.
Adison in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Addison in English — spelling variant
- Addyson in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Pennsylvania, Texas.
Adisons among us
people named Adison are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Adison
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Adison
- #7885
- Adison on the 2025 chart
- #94
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Adison went to 13 girls in 2025, but Addison and Addyson are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 3,151, which makes it the 94th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,791 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 510 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 123,636 for Adison 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 Lala test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adison's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lala climbed just as high around 1900, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lala's path sketches the road Adison is walking now.
Adison 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
Adison beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adison in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Addie is an immediate short form with a genuine medieval history.
- It is read correctly on sight by English speakers.
- The underlying Adam has a settled and vivid meaning.
- Addison is the standard spelling and will be substituted constantly.
- The name literally means son of Adam.
- The 2000s peak dates a bearer fairly precisely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adisons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Adison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Adison?
- Adison is one of 3 recorded spellings. Addison is the more common one — 2,971 births in 2025 against 13 for Adison.
- How popular is the name Adison in 2025?
- Adison ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adison?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Adison — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adison with classmates?
- Adison will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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