Aldean — unisex name

What the Data Says About Aldean

The Social Security Administration has registered 400 babies named Aldean between 1908 and 1959, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aldean currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1959. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Aldean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 186 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aldean performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Aldean shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aldean in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aldean in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 400 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.