Ayden
Ayden was given to 1,343 boys in 2025, #257 among boys’ names; 91,630 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 90,700 Americans named Ayden 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 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayden is “a male given name from Irish, a new American spelling variant of Aidan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayden?
#257 among boys’ names, 2025
Ayden fell from #87 in 2015 to #257 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.6 to 0.79 per 1,000.
6,349 babies in 2012, the peak
Ayden peaked in 2012, when 6,349 babies were given it (6,234 boys, #68 among boys’ names). The 1,365 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,343 | #257 | 0.79 |
| 2024 | 1,684 | #213 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,912 | #190 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,198 | #171 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,642 | #143 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 3,025 | #122 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 3,367 | #114 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 3,685 | #104 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 3,964 | #99 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 4,506 | #92 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,891 | #87 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5,632 | #74 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 6,084 | #71 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6,234 | #68 | 3.3 |
| 2011 | 6,129 | #70 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5,144 | #78 | 2.7 |
| 2009 | 4,998 | #87 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5,058 | #91 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 4,325 | #102 | 2.1 |
| 2006 | 3,596 | #119 | 1.7 |
| 2005 | 2,722 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2,183 | #182 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 1,830 | #201 | 0.93 |
| 2002 | 863 | #321 | 0.44 |
| 2001 | 452 | #506 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 268 | #666 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 149 | #964 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 120 | #1,078 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,597 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,143 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,348 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,213 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 91,630 Americans recorded as Ayden, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls and 1,343 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayden, and how old are they?
90,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 91,630 Americans ever recorded as Ayden. The median Ayden alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 65,628 people named Ayden (2,145 women and girls, 63,483 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 78,730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 124 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 45,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 45,200 |
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 Ayden born?
The states with the most babies named Ayden are Texas, California and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 154 | #254 | 1.1× |
| California | 154 | #241 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 128 | #171 | 1.1× |
| New York | 111 | #173 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 69 | #182 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 45 | #271 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #261 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 44 | #215 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 43 | #261 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 38 | #264 | 0.9× |
Where Ayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayden is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1990 it was given 1.5 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 Ayden 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, Ayden is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,365 of their 8,594 babies (16%), the second 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 Ayden
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 Ayden and names like it
- Compare Ayden and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAyden peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayden since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Ayden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ayden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.