The True Meanings “That’s a boy's name,” I heard a guy say when my friend called me over after fifth hour. It was always strange to me why my parents named me Addison. When I would look up my name, most of the time it would say it meant Adam’s son. Seeing my name being associated with “son” always confused me as to why my parents didn’t look up the name before hand. They chose Addison because all of my siblings names start with an A, but they considered naming me Abigail. It was soon out of the question. One of my parents friends named their child Abigail shortly before I was born, and my parents didn’t want us to have the same name. Addison does have other meanings, and I would say it both fits and doesn’t fit me. My name shows the fit to