Entry № 118 · English origin

Addison Addison — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AD-ih-son /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Son of Adam (peaked #11 in 2007 as a girl's name)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "son of adam (peaked #11 in 2007 as a girl's name)".

Addison is an Old English surname meaning "son of Adam" — itself from the Hebrew adamah (earth). Addison Montgomery is a major character in Grey's Anatomy (2005-2012) and Private Practice (2007-2013), played by Kate Walsh.

Son of Adam.

The name in its native script.

Addison
Transliteration
Addison
Pronunciation
/ ˈæd.ɪ.sən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Addison stands.

Addison does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Addisons before her.

Real people
Addison Rae
American TikTok personality.
born 2000
In fiction
Addison Montgomery
Grey's Anatomy.
2005

Names connected to Addison.

The number behind Addison.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Addison reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.