Addie as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Addie

What is the meaning of the name Addie ?

The baby name Addie is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced AD-ee (IPA: /ˈædi/).

Addie is in Origin.

Addie is an English diminutive for several names rooted in the Germanic element adal, “noble” - notably Adelaide (from Adalheidis, “noble kind”) and Adeline. It also shortens Ada, Adela, and Adele, and is sometimes used for the surname-given name Addison (“son of Adam”). Thus Addie most often carries the sense “noble,” though for Addison-based bearers it can read “child of Adam.” Variants include Addy, Addi, and Ady; related longer forms include Adelaide, Adeline, Ada, Adele, and Addison.

Used independently since the Victorian era, Addie was common in late-19th-century U.S. records and appeared for both sexes as a nickname (e.g., pitcher Addie Joss), though it has been chiefly feminine. The name waned mid-century, then revived with the return of vintage diminutives and the rise of Addison in the 1990s–2000s. Literary use includes Addie Bundren in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.