Addie
About Addie
Old-fashioned nickname with sweet turn-of-the-last-century charm that's become a favorite among the popular girl names starting with A of today. In fact, with all spellings of Adeline/Adalynn taken together firmly in the Top 10, and Adelaide and Addison also high in the charts, Addie is one of the most frequently-heard short forms around. But no matter how popular (or pandemic) it gets, Addie is undeniably one of the cutest names for baby girls. Little girls might like the fact that it's the name, though spelled Addy, of an American Girl series doll.
As of October 2026, Addie ranked #1272 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #76 in 1885.
Editor's take: The name Addie is a girl's name of English origin.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,178 | 208 | 116.4 |
| 2015 | #1,111 | 232 | 130 |
| 2016 | #1,312 | 182 | 102.7 |
| 2017 | #1,256 | 188 | 108.9 |
| 2018 | #1,250 | 185 | 108.8 |
| 2019 | #1,218 | 192 | 114.4 |
| 2020 | #1,317 | 167 | 103.3 |
| 2021 | #1,344 | 164 | 99.9 |
| 2022 | #1,207 | 200 | 121.9 |
| 2023 | #1,194 | 201 | 125.3 |
| 2024 | #1,312 | 174 | 107.4 |
| 2025 | #1,272 | 176 | 109.5 |
World rankings
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Addie on lists
Famous Addies
- Addie "Micki" Harris McPherson
American singer of girl group The Shirelles
- Addie Lucia Ballou
American poet
- Addie Land
American actress
- Addie Walsh
American soap opera writer
- Addie Waites Hunton
American suffragist
- Addie L. Wyatt
American labor leader
- Addie Prater Graham
American folk singer
- Addie Aylestock
Canadian minister
- Addie Jo "Jody" Conradt
American basketball coach
- Addie Cherry
American vaudeville singer of The Cherry Sisters
- Addie McPhail
American actress and wife of Fatty Arbuckle
- Addie Mae Collins
American child victim of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing
- Ireland "Addie" Baldwin (b. 1995)
daughter of American actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
- Addallee Hope "Addie" Bates (b. 2006)
15th child of American reality TV family The Bates
- Addie Grace Harrison (b. 2011)
daughter of baseball player Matt Harrison
- Addie Pepper Nicholson Crawford (b. 2016)
daughter of celebrity chef Lynn Crawford
Addie in pop culture
- Princess Addie
main character in "The Two Princesses of Bamarre" by Gail Carson Levine
- Addie Singer
main character on TV's "Unfabulous"
- Addie Mills
character in movie "The House Without a Christmas Tree"
- Addison "Addie" Carle
character in The Misfits series by James Howe
- Addie
character in The Hybrid Chronicles by Kat Zhang
- Addie Pray
character in movie "Paper Moon"played by Tatum O'Neal
- Agatha "Addie" Cramer
character on TV soap "One Life to Live"
- Addie Horton
character on TV soap "Days of Our Lives"
- Addie
character in the young adult novel 'One of Us is Lying'