Addison

English

Etymology

A patronymic surname from a medieval diminutive form of Adam +‎ -son.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈædɪsən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Addison (countable and uncountable, plural Addisons)

1. A surname transferred from the given name.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A female given name transferred from the surname popular in the 2000s, following Alison and Madison.
   • 2009, J. Scott Romig, The Lookout Tree, Author House, →ISBN, page 1:

     My name is Addison Jane Dawson, but you can call me Addy; everyone else does. I was named after my great grandfather, Addison Jay Dawson, - - -

4. A place name, including:
   1. A town in Vermont, United States, named after the poet Joseph Addison.
   2. Synonym of Webster Springs, West Virginia; this is actually the official name, after landowner Addison McLaughlin.
   3. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Addison Township.

Derived terms

• Addison County
• Addison's disease

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Addison is the 1986^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 18,169 individuals. Addison is most common among White (50.75%) and Black/African American (42.95) individuals.

See also

• Addison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Scots

Etymology

A diminutive form of Adamson.

Pronunciation

• (Orkney, Angus) IPA^(key): /ˈedɪsən/

Proper noun

Addison

1. a surname

References

• “Addison”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.