Aiden
Aiden was given to 5,046 boys in 2025, #62 among boys’ names; 259,912 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 257,000 Americans named Aiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aiden is “a male given name from Irish, variant of Aidan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aiden?
#62 among boys’ names, 2025
Aiden fell from #13 in 2015 to #62 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.0 to 3.0 per 1,000.
16,143 babies in 2009, the peak
Aiden peaked in 2009, when 16,143 babies were given it (16,030 boys, #12 among boys’ names). The 5,073 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,046 | #62 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 6,262 | #47 | 3.6 |
| 2023 | 6,701 | #40 | 3.9 |
| 2022 | 7,852 | #29 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 8,313 | #26 | 4.8 |
| 2020 | 8,619 | #24 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 9,403 | #20 | 5.2 |
| 2018 | 10,062 | #19 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 11,357 | #17 | 6.1 |
| 2016 | 12,269 | #16 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13,506 | #13 | 7.0 |
| 2014 | 13,438 | #14 | 7.0 |
| 2013 | 13,649 | #12 | 7.2 |
| 2012 | 14,924 | #10 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 15,520 | #9 | 8.2 |
| 2010 | 15,547 | #9 | 8.1 |
| 2009 | 16,030 | #12 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 15,592 | #16 | 7.6 |
| 2007 | 13,113 | #27 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 11,591 | #32 | 5.6 |
| 2005 | 9,083 | #50 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7,161 | #60 | 3.6 |
| 2003 | 5,684 | #73 | 2.9 |
| 2002 | 2,832 | #135 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 1,587 | #217 | 0.82 |
| 2000 | 881 | #324 | 0.45 |
| 1999 | 479 | #473 | 0.25 |
| 1998 | 367 | #545 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 264 | #638 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 174 | #823 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 140 | #934 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,716 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 39 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,606 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,806 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,522 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,735 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,597 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,482 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,313 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,235 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aiden has been given almost only to boys: 2,147 girls in 48 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aiden, and how old are they?
257,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 259,912 Americans ever recorded as Aiden. The median Aiden alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 193,526 people named Aiden (2,066 women and girls, 191,460 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 217,229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 658 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 131,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126,000 |
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 Aiden born?
The states with the most babies named Aiden are California, Texas and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 677 | #51 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 603 | #53 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 360 | #52 | 1.0× |
| New York | 355 | #40 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 192 | #39 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 188 | #48 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 168 | #69 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 158 | #72 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 157 | #67 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 153 | #45 | 1.0× |
Where Aiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aiden is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 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 Aiden 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, Aiden is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5,073 of their 8,594 babies (59%), again the 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 Aiden
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 Aiden and names like it
- Compare Aiden and AidanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAiden peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aiden since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Aiden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aiden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.