Aedan
Aedan was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,658 among boys’ names; 3,905 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Aedan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aedan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aedan?
#3,658 among boys’ names, 2025
Aedan fell from #1,132 in 2015 to #3,658 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 87.6 to 17.6 per million.
288 babies in 2006, the peak
Aedan peaked in 2006, when 288 babies were given it (278 boys, #759 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,658 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,561 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,293 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,517 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 49 | #2,624 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,911 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 95 | #1,678 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,506 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 144 | #1,264 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,175 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 168 | #1,132 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,118 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,107 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,115 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 184 | #1,031 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 235 | #886 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 261 | #831 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 265 | #827 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 283 | #774 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 278 | #759 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 207 | #879 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 129 | #1,189 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,281 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,302 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 82 | #1,477 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 61 | #1,778 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 48 | #1,993 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,549 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,901 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,279 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,802 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,814 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,240 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,286 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aedan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,905 Americans recorded as Aedan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aedan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aedan, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,905 Americans ever recorded as Aedan. The median Aedan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,425 people named Aedan (87 women and girls, 3,338 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,592 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 72 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Aedan born?
The states with the most babies named Aedan are California, Texas and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 402 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 286 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 221 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 188 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 138 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 127 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 104 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 97 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Colorado | 91 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 88 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Aedan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aedan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1988 it was given 1.2 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 Aedan 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 544,024 babies since 1880, Aedan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 8,616 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 Aedan
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 Aedan and names like it
- Compare Aedan and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAedan peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aedan since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Aedan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aedan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.