Aidan
Aidan was given to 1,043 boys in 2025, #326 among boys’ names; 121,158 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 119,000 Americans named Aidan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aidan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aidan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aidan is “a male given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “fire” (literally).
Also “a female given name from Irish of modern usage.”
Name of an Irish saint, Anglicized from Irish Aodhán and Scottish Gaelic Aodhan, diminutives of Aodh (literally “fire”, the name of a Celtic sun god).
/ˈeɪdən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aidan?
#326 among boys’ names, 2025
Aidan fell from #185 in 2015 to #326 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.2 to 0.61 per 1,000.
10,296 babies in 2003, the peak
Aidan peaked in 2003, when 10,296 babies were given it (10,067 boys, #39 among boys’ names). The 1,051 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,043 | #326 | 0.61 |
| 2024 | 1,098 | #312 | 0.64 |
| 2023 | 1,113 | #300 | 0.65 |
| 2022 | 1,161 | #296 | 0.66 |
| 2021 | 1,209 | #286 | 0.69 |
| 2020 | 1,331 | #261 | 0.77 |
| 2019 | 1,544 | #243 | 0.86 |
| 2018 | 1,571 | #242 | 0.87 |
| 2017 | 1,735 | #221 | 0.94 |
| 2016 | 2,118 | #191 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,265 | #185 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 2,280 | #187 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 2,676 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 3,225 | #116 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 3,721 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 4,311 | #94 | 2.2 |
| 2009 | 5,811 | #72 | 2.9 |
| 2008 | 7,709 | #59 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 8,426 | #54 | 4.1 |
| 2006 | 10,035 | #44 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9,759 | #43 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 9,824 | #40 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 10,067 | #39 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 6,954 | #60 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 4,632 | #86 | 2.4 |
| 2000 | 3,296 | #114 | 1.7 |
| 1999 | 2,213 | #166 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 1,703 | #196 | 0.89 |
| 1997 | 1,382 | #222 | 0.73 |
| 1996 | 1,093 | #259 | 0.58 |
| 1995 | 973 | #282 | 0.51 |
| 1994 | 517 | #440 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 332 | #557 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 269 | #628 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 167 | #793 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 134 | #886 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 54 | #1,422 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 52 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 54 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,904 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 28 | #1,965 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,311 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,557 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 24 | #1,999 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,204 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,403 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,152 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,761 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,247 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,078 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,553 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aidan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 121,158 Americans recorded as Aidan, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 1,043 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aidan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aidan, and how old are they?
119,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 121,158 Americans ever recorded as Aidan. The median Aidan alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 108,843 people named Aidan (2,552 women and girls, 106,291 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 113,226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 247 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 93,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 21,200 |
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 Aidan born?
The states with the most babies named Aidan are California, Texas and New York, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 133 | #278 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 110 | #345 | 0.7× |
| New York | 78 | #245 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 64 | #300 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 51 | #141 | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 49 | #199 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 44 | #225 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 41 | #268 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #304 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 34 | #251 | 1.1× |
Where Aidan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aidan is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1936 it was given 1.9 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 Aidan 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, Aidan is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,051 of their 8,594 babies (12%), the third 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 Aidan
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 Aidan and names like it
- Compare Aidan and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAidan peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aidan since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aidan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Aidan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aidan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.