Aayden
Aayden was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,141 among boys’ names; 1,720 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Aayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 10 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aayden is “a male given name from Irish, a new American spelling variant of Aidan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aayden?
#6,141 among boys’ names, 2025
Aayden fell from #1,089 in 2015 to #6,141 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 93.4 to 8.2 per million.
190 babies in 2014, the peak
Aayden peaked in 2014, when 190 boys were given it, #1,048 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,141 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,897 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,070 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,698 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,647 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,727 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,213 | 35.1 |
| 2018 | 96 | #1,663 | 52.9 |
| 2017 | 96 | #1,644 | 51.9 |
| 2016 | 135 | #1,326 | 71.1 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 179 | #1,089 | 93.4 |
| 2014 | 190 | #1,048 | 98.9 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,216 | 77.7 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,273 | 72.7 |
| 2011 | 148 | #1,193 | 77.9 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,331 | 66.7 |
| 2009 | 99 | #1,603 | 49.9 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,038 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,133 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,382 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,472 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,533 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,252 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aayden has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 23 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aayden, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,720 Americans ever recorded as Aayden. The median Aayden alive today is 12 years old; half are between 10 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,237 people named Aayden (38 women and girls, 1,199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 671 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
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 Aayden born?
The states with the most babies named Aayden are Texas, California and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 194 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 167 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 100 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 36 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 30 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Aayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aayden is most over-represented in Texas: since 2003 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Aayden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 397,024 babies since 1880, Aayden is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 7,082 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Aayden
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 Aayden and names like it
- Compare Aayden and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAayden peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aayden since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Aayden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aayden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.