Addie

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ORIGIN AND HISTORY

Addie is a nickname for any name being with "Ad", such as Adeline, Adelaide, or Addison.^[1] It’s derived from Adalheit, an ancient Germanic name that means "exalted nature."^[1]

POPULARITY

As a stand-alone girl's name, Addie was a favorite choice in the early twentieth century, ranking among the top 500 names for girls from 1900 through 1949. It’s popularity quickly diminished after that, however, and from 1961 until 2005 it didn’t make the top 1000 list.

As a boy’s name, Addie ranked among the top 1000 names only five times since 1900, all before 1910.^[1]

As a girl's name:

• 2005: Rank = 976

• 1960: Rank = 956
• 1959: Rank = 820
• 1958: Rank = 844
• 1957: Rank = 761
• 1956: Rank = 721
• 1955: Rank = 728
• 1954: Rank = 676
• 1953: Rank = 620
• 1952: Rank = 614
• 1951: Rank = 537
• 1950: Rank = 529

As a boy's name:

• 1907: Rank = 867
• 1906: Rank = 927
• 1905: Rank = ---
• 1904: Rank = ---
• 1903: Rank = 847
• 1902: Rank = ---
• 1901: Rank = 859
• 1900: Rank = 838

FACTS

• Addieville is a town in Illinois, U.S.A.
• The ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) is the process used by training developers and instructional designers when building training and performance support tools.^[1]

NAMESAKES

• Addie - fictional character in The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
• Addie Bundren - fictional character in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Addie - character in the film The Break-Up
• Adelaide “Addie” Horton Olson Williams - fictional character in the television soap opera Days of Our Lives
• Addie - one of the dolls in the American Girl collection

FAMOUS PERSONS

• Adrian “Addie” Joss (1880-1911) - Hall of Fame baseball player
• Addie Graham (b. before 1900 - ?) - traditional singer from Kentucky
• Addie “Micki” Harris (1940-1982) - member of the all-girl singing group The Shirelles
• Addie Mae Collins (1948-1963) - young victim in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing by members of the Ku Klux Klan
• Addie Wyatt (b. 1924) - American labor organizer and leader in the struggle for equal pay for equal work

With Addie as a last name:

• Robert Addie (1960-2003) - English actor

NOTES

OTHER ADDIE'S

Addie Smith, Addie Johnson, Addie Williams, Addie Jones, Addie Brown, Addie Davis, Addie Miller, Addie Wilson, Addie Moore, Addie Taylor, Addie Aaron, Addie Abel, Addie Abele, Addie Abercrombie, Addie Abermatju, Addie Abraham, Addie Abram, Addie Abrams, Addie Abshier, Addie Acevedo, Addie Ackerman, Addie Acosta, Addie Acuff, Addie Adams, Addie Adcock, Addie Addazzio, Addie Addison, Addie Adjf, Addie Adkins, Addie Adler, Addie Afable, Addie Agbasi, Addie Agostini, Addie Aguilar, Addie Aguirre, Addie Ahlstrom, Addie Akau, Addie Akers, Addie Akins, Addie Albert, Addie Alberti, Addie Albertson, Addie Albritton, Addie Alcorn, Addie Alday, Addie Alderman, Addie Aldridge, Addie Alexander, Addie Alexandre, Addie Alexis, More results

Author: Samantha Bell