Aldon
Aldon was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,157 among boys’ names; 1,618 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aldon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aldon?
#6,157 among boys’ names, 2025
Aldon fell from #4,720 in 2015 to #6,157 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 8.2 per million.
30 babies in 1929, the peak
Aldon peaked in 1929, when 30 boys were given it, #1,296 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,157 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,066 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,230 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,636 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,344 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,632 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,410 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,322 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,112 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 26 | #3,993 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,720 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,618 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,498 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,035 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,586 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,488 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,815 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,543 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,909 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,527 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,645 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,009 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,560 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,474 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,542 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,843 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,535 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,490 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,627 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,187 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,813 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,093 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,833 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,445 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,480 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #4,993 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,268 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,204 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #4,969 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,884 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,399 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,925 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,888 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,237 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,145 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,415 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,136 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,434 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,320 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,645 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,015 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #2,990 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,662 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,283 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,865 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,578 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,611 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,252 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,619 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,311 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,672 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,672 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,241 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,314 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,417 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,372 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,275 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,627 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,764 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,206 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,186 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 20 | #1,701 | 10.3 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,245 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,019 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,023 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,758 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,734 | 10.4 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,144 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,926 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,630 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,485 | 15.4 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,268 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,411 | 18.7 |
| 1940 | 13 | #1,984 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,532 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,741 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,444 | 20.6 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,801 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,031 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,386 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,770 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #1,996 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,771 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,822 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,296 | 27.9 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,413 | 24.4 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,035 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,789 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,534 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,895 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,588 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,470 | 23.9 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,509 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,418 | 25.4 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,322 | 29.6 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,498 | 23.7 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,645 | 21.6 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,458 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,185 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,271 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,949 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,527 | 25.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,218 | 38.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aldon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aldon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aldon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aldon, and how old are they?
An estimated 911 Americans named Aldon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 13 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 915 people named Aldon (12 women and girls, 903 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 907 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 21,939 babies since 1880, Aldon is the second most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 531 babies (2.6%), again the second 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 Aldon
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 Aldon and names like it
- Compare Aldon and AldenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAldon peaked in 1929.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aldon since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Aldon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aldon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.