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I LOVE Addison! I do prefer it on a girl, though.

-Not a fan.

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-It’s much better on a boy. The meaning is “son of Adam” so it fits a bit much better, especially if he is a child of someone named Adam.

Hate the name Addison, but I prefer it on a boy.

I think it's a surname, and I struggle to imagine it as a first name on anyone.
I could sort of get why people liked Madison: it looks like Madeleine + Alison. But Addison is just Alison with a bad cold.

I highly dislike it on a girl and I LOVE it on a boy.

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It ends in -son so I hate the idea that it's a female name, but I love the sound of it and am happy to see it on males.

Addy makes me think of adderall. ADD. Addison sounds/looks like addition, addiction, add a son. I'm left with the impression that Addison is hyperactive and maybe obsessed with being productive or consuming things (or like Addy's problems keep adding up, multiplying, so his/her work is never done).

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I like Edison and Adam for a boy. I like Adelaide and Adele for a girl; I don't like Madison, but I don't mind it either. I think it's mainly the DD that bothers me, but I'm so used to Addison / Madison that Adison would look incomplete.

This message was edited 7/13/2018, 12:10 PM

It's just another trendy surname name I don't care much for.

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I don't like it because I associate it really strongly with the name of an endocrine disease and though I try, I can't disassociate it. I really do think of a disease when I see it. Because the first time I really noticed the name was when I encountered a dog afflicted by Addison's.

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And I don't like it because in general, I don't care for surname-names, unless I really happen to like the way they sound.

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It sounds more like a guy name to me than a girl name, but it also sounds like Alison. The only reason I'd have a preference, is because I feel like surname-names are better suited for boys generally. But the Alison-sound kind of makes up for that (and sounding like Madison helps too. I think of Madison as better for a girl). I'd rather see Edison on a boy, Alison or Madison on a girl, than Addison on either.

This message was edited 7/13/2018, 11:30 AM

What site do you think you're on? The majority of the board's going to prefer it on a boy.

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I think it works fine for either. If you're nickname obsessed, it works better as a girl's name. If I had to use it, I'd use it on a boy, but, as usual, most -on names are off limits for me, especially any as surnamey as this. I get called by my last name frequently even though my first name is not a surname.

A friend from high school has a son named Addison. I love it and much prefer it for a boy.