Aydan
Aydan was given to 85 boys in 2025, #1,853 among boys’ names; 6,582 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,510 Americans named Aydan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 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 Aydan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aydan mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Aydan is “a female given name”
From ay + -dan. Literally, “from the moon”.
/ˈajdan/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aydan?
#1,853 among boys’ names, 2025
Aydan fell from #968 in 2015 to #1,853 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.05 per 1,000.
495 babies in 2008, the peak
Aydan peaked in 2008, when 495 babies were given it (454 boys, #570 among boys’ names). The 85 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #1,853 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,610 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,539 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 149 | #1,284 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,291 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,336 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,186 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,292 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 172 | #1,116 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 203 | #1,006 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 214 | #968 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 239 | #899 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 253 | #844 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 337 | #705 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 346 | #682 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 380 | #637 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 399 | #626 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 454 | #570 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 414 | #608 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 429 | #577 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 331 | #652 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 306 | #666 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 243 | #740 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,153 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 67 | #1,709 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 56 | #1,872 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,664 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,262 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,297 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,813 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,794 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aydan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,582 Americans recorded as Aydan, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 85 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 Aydan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aydan, and how old are they?
6,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,582 Americans ever recorded as Aydan. The median Aydan alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 5,112 people named Aydan (492 women and girls, 4,620 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,822 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,150 |
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 Aydan born?
The states with the most babies named Aydan are Texas, California and New York, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,420 | 1.1× |
| California | 10 | #1,600 | 0.8× |
| New York | 9 | #1,214 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,306 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 5 | #959 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 5 | #861 | 0.7× |
Where Aydan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aydan is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1993 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 Aydan 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, Aydan is the seventh most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 8,594 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Aydan
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 Aydan and names like it
- Compare Aydan and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAydan peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aydan since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aydan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Aydan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aydan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.