Aden
Aden was given to 224 boys in 2025, #1,008 among boys’ names; 22,517 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,800 Americans named Aden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aden?
#1,008 among boys’ names, 2025
Aden fell from #370 in 2015 to #1,008 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.45 to 0.13 per 1,000.
1,432 babies in 2006, the peak
Aden peaked in 2006, when 1,432 babies were given it (1,408 boys, #244 among boys’ names). The 234 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224 | #1,008 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 225 | #998 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 291 | #835 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 306 | #813 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 393 | #678 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 396 | #665 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 443 | #614 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 555 | #509 | 0.31 |
| 2017 | 583 | #497 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 702 | #440 | 0.37 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 871 | #370 | 0.45 |
| 2014 | 1,003 | #335 | 0.52 |
| 2013 | 1,111 | #309 | 0.59 |
| 2012 | 1,155 | #299 | 0.61 |
| 2011 | 1,212 | #289 | 0.64 |
| 2010 | 1,174 | #288 | 0.61 |
| 2009 | 1,375 | #253 | 0.69 |
| 2008 | 1,393 | #253 | 0.68 |
| 2007 | 1,315 | #265 | 0.63 |
| 2006 | 1,408 | #244 | 0.69 |
| 2005 | 1,202 | #279 | 0.60 |
| 2004 | 1,035 | #305 | 0.52 |
| 2003 | 922 | #321 | 0.47 |
| 2002 | 516 | #465 | 0.27 |
| 2001 | 330 | #598 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 181 | #871 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,098 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,345 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,596 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,702 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,796 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,685 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,343 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,170 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,345 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,070 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,888 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,018 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,268 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,207 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,112 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,134 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,244 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,635 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,944 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,855 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,793 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,029 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,505 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,374 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,798 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,021 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,075 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,925 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,079 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,735 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,134 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,894 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,958 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,901 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,176 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,872 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,029 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,738 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,451 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,703 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,934 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,773 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,144 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,265 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,187 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 14 | #1,967 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,547 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 5 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #973 | 0.04 |
| 1880 | 7 | #745 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,517 Americans recorded as Aden, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls and 224 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aden, and how old are they?
21,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 22,517 Americans ever recorded as Aden. The median Aden alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 20,018 people named Aden (753 women and girls, 19,265 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,115 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 118 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 216 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 474 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,240 |
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 Aden born?
The states with the most babies named Aden are Texas, California and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,070 | 0.9× |
| California | 18 | #1,121 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 16 | #887 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #577 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 14 | #650 | 1.4× |
| New York | 13 | #950 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 10 | #716 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 9 | #919 | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #570 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #842 | 1.2× |
Where Aden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aden is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Aden 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 545,198 babies since 1880, Aden is the fifth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 234 of their 8,594 babies (2.7%), again the fifth 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 Aden
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 Aden and names like it
- Compare Aden and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAden peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aden since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Aden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.