Adison
Masculine · “Hebrew adam”
Adison is given to both — 660 boys and 3,249 girls since 1880. See Adison as a girl nameSee other names given to both
English surnames are usually built on a father: Johnson, Richardson, Wilson. A small group is built on a mother instead. Madison is the son of Maud. Ibbotson is the son of Ibbot, which is Isabel. Tillotson is the son of Till, which is Matilda. Addison is the odd one out here, because Adam was a man.
How old is the name Adison?
Adison first appears in US birth records in 1926 — 99 years ago. The typical Adison alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 600 people named Adison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adison most popular?
Adison peaked in 2004, reaching #2102 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 6,808 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adam to Adison
The story of Adison
Metronymic surnames, built on the mother's name rather than the father's, are a small but real class in English, and they tell you something about medieval households. Madison is Maud's son, from Matilda. Ibbotson and Ibbetson are the son of Ibbot, a pet form of Isabel. Tillotson is Till's son, also Matilda. Emmott, Marriott, Beaton, Sisson and Annison all come from women's names. They arose where the mother was the better known parent, the more substantial landholder, or the only recorded one, and they survived because surnames froze in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and stopped responding to who a family's head actually was. It is worth knowing when Madison is discussed as a modern girl's name, because the surname was already carrying a woman's name inside it seven hundred years before anyone put it on a daughter.
Meaning
Hebrew adam, earth or man
Adison is a respelling of Addison, an English surname meaning son of Addy, a medieval pet form of Adam. Adam is Hebrew, connected in Genesis to adamah, the ground, and to adom, red, from the color of the soil. The single d in this spelling weakens the short-vowel signal that the doubled d carries, which is why Addison and Adison can be read differently. The American peak of the single-d male spelling is 2004.
How the name formed
- adam
- Adam
- Addy
- Addison
- Adison
Related forms: Addison · Adamson
Pronouncing Adison
AD-ih-sun
Three syllables, stress on the first. The single d invites AY-dih-sun from readers applying English vowel rules; the doubled d in Addison prevents that.
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
- 1926
- Most boys named
- 200456 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2102reached in 2004
- Change vs 2023
- +60.0%8 in 2025, from 5
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
- Adamson in English — related form
Adisons among us
people named Adison are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Adison
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Adison
- #8910
- Adison on the 2025 chart
- #858
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Adison went to 8 boys in 2025, but Addison is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 70, which makes it the 858th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,052 places above the chart.
- Addison62
- Adison8
About 1 boy in 24,401 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 213,510 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 Brewster 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: Brewster climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Brewster'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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a genuine English surname with a documented medieval history.
- The surname-as-first-name pattern remains widely used.
- Three syllables with clear first-syllable stress.
- Addison is much commoner and reads as the correct spelling.
- The single d changes what English spelling rules predict for the vowel.
- Addison is now given far more often to girls than to boys.
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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 600 people named Adison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Adison?
- Adison is one of 2 recorded spellings. Addison is the more common one — 62 births in 2025 against 8 for Adison.
- How popular is the name Adison in 2025?
- Adison ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adison?
- About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Adison — 8 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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