Addis is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Addis is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Addis each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Addis will meet someone with the same name. So, Addis is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Addis. Kids called Addis have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,699 Addis ranked higher than ever in 1909. By comparison, there have been 80 years in which the first name Addis has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2018. In general, parents name their babies Addis only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Addis you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Addis was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Addis continues to be a precious jewel: 9 newborns were named Addis that year, ranking #17,307 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Addis, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for given names. 10.3% of all common first names in the US start with this letter. The second most common initial letter in first names is J.
With five letters, the name Addis is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.3% of all first names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average.
If your name is Addis and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Addis, you can simply say:
Apple
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Addis
Addis
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
D
D
I
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
D
D
I
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Addis sounds like this:
