Aaden
Aaden was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,906 among boys’ names; 5,079 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,030 Americans named Aaden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aaden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aaden?
#8,906 among boys’ names, 2025
Aaden fell from #784 in 2015 to #8,906 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.00 per 1,000.
1,274 babies in 2009, the peak
Aaden peaked in 2009, when 1,274 babies were given it (1,269 boys, #271 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,933 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,086 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,120 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,365 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,723 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 171 | #1,128 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 241 | #893 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 297 | #784 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 239 | #898 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 204 | #981 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 225 | #920 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 276 | #799 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 450 | #561 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 1,269 | #271 | 0.64 |
| 2008 | 958 | #342 | 0.47 |
| 2007 | 158 | #1,132 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,247 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,087 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,124 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,109 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,388 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,333 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aaden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aaden has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 25 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aaden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aaden, and how old are they?
5,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,079 Americans ever recorded as Aaden. The median Aaden alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 4,123 people named Aaden (21 women and girls, 4,102 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,902 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,580 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aaden born?
The states with the most babies named Aaden are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 647 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 521 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 284 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 253 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 210 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 177 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 176 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 132 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 131 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 125 | not ranked | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aaden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aaden?
Aaden is a less common spelling of Aden: SSA has recorded 5,079 Aaden and 22,517 Aden since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 545,198 babies since 1880, Aaden is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 8,594 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aaden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aaden and names like it
- Compare Aaden and AdenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAaden peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aaden since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Aaden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aaden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.