Addison
loc · Latin script
Meaning: son of Addy; first attested John Addisone 1308 Pat (Yorkshire)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Addison is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 433 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Addy; first attested John Addisone 1308 Pat (Yorkshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Addison counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 119K | Addison | 433 |
| CA Canada | — | 38 | Addison | 152 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 28 | Addison | 208 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Addison | 13 |
| AU Australia | — | 213 | Addison | 140 |
| BR Brazil | — | 83 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Addison is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old English; son of Adam, man of the red earth
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, John Addisone 1308 Pat (Y); Robert Addeson 1498 GildY. ‘Son of Addy.’
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Transferred use of the surname, which originated as a patronymic derived from Addie or Adie, a medieval (and occasional modern) pet form of Adam. This is now a relatively popular given name in the United States.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, son of Addie, a pet-form of Adam
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Addisonb. 1672GBEnglish essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)
- Thomas Addisonb. 1793GB19th-century British physician and scientist
- Addison Emery Verrillb. 1839USU.S. zoologist (1839–1926)
- Addison Richardsb. 1902USAmerican actor (1902–1964)
- John Addisonb. 1920GBBritish composer (1920–1998)
- James Bakerb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican lawyer and statesman (born 1930)
- Wilbur Smithb. 1933ZMnot in their usual nameSouth African novelist (1933–2021)
- Mitch McConnellb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and lawyer (born 1942)
- Addison Timlinb. 1991USAmerican actress
- Addison Raeb. 2000USAmerican singer and actress (born 2000)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 119K | #438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #1,986 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #438 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3K | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 246 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 213 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 83 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 81 | #47,007 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2024 | 76 | #92 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 62 | #80 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Addison mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Addy; first attested John Addisone 1308 Pat (Yorkshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Addison have the most bearers?
- Addison is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled addison.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Addison”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.