Add
Addition, usually denoted with the plus sign +, is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication, and division. The addition of two whole numbers results in the total or sum of those values combined. For example, the adjacent image shows two columns of apples, one with three apples and the other with two apples, totaling to five apples.
Meaning & Origin of Add
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Addition, usually denoted with the plus sign +, is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication, and division. The addition of two whole numbers results in the total or sum of those values combined. For example, the adjacent image shows two columns of apples, one with three apples and the other with two apples, totaling to five apples.
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The Story of Add
Add first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1890, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1922: 12 births, good for #2,486 nationwide. About 33% of every Add on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Add last appeared in the published SSA data in 1945, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 102 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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About the name Add
Add is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1890 and has accumulated 102 births in the dataset. Add's peak popularity came in 1922 when it ranked #2,486. Use the chart and map above to compare Add's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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