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When I was a teenager back in the 1970s, I had a friend named Alison. Like me, she was born in 1960, so she was given the name before it really started to rise in popularity. (Actually it was the spelling Allison that took off, but same dif.) Her parents had named her older sister Michelle in 1954 so obviously they were trendsetters. Anyway, I never liked her name, never. Just never saw the appeal. At the time, Madison and Addison never crossed my mind as they were not used as names back then. This makes me think that perhaps my intense dislike of both Madison and Addison springs from more than the fact that they are surnames-on-girls, a trend which I dislike in general. Perhaps it is also the very sound, evidently I really dislike "son" endings.