Aydin
Aydin was given to 147 boys in 2025, #1,315 among boys’ names; 6,696 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,630 Americans named Aydin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aydin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aydin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aydin is “a male given name from Turkish.” Its etymology gives the sense “light; clarity; shining; bright; enlightened, educated, intelligent” (آیدین).
From Turkish Aydın, from Ottoman Turkish آیدین (Aydın) named for Aydin Mehmet Bey, from آیدین (aydın, “light; clarity; shining; bright; enlightened, educated, intelligent”).
/ˈaɪdɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aydin?
#1,315 among boys’ names, 2025
Aydin fell from #802 in 2015 to #1,315 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.09 per 1,000.
414 babies in 2008, the peak
Aydin peaked in 2008, when 414 babies were given it (393 boys, #629 among boys’ names). The 147 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,315 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,211 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 176 | #1,169 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 187 | #1,130 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 256 | #897 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 259 | #869 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 273 | #826 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 254 | #863 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 255 | #855 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 280 | #818 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 288 | #802 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 321 | #741 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 332 | #707 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 332 | #713 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 358 | #655 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 358 | #670 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 384 | #645 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 393 | #629 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 325 | #712 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 289 | #738 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 216 | #850 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 197 | #877 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 141 | #1,092 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,444 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 62 | #1,797 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,138 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,795 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,454 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,620 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aydin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,696 Americans recorded as Aydin, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 147 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 Aydin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aydin, and how old are they?
6,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,696 Americans ever recorded as Aydin. The median Aydin alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 5,141 people named Aydin (213 women and girls, 4,928 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,516 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 32 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,210 |
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 Aydin born?
The states with the most babies named Aydin are California, New York and Texas, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 22 | #991 | 0.9× |
| New York | 19 | #747 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,489 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 9 | #736 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #777 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,036 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 7 | #911 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 7 | #809 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,650 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,226 | 0.9× |
Where Aydin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aydin is most over-represented in New York: since 1984 it was given 1.4 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 Aydin 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, Aydin is the sixth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 8,594 babies (1.7%), again the sixth 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 Aydin
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 Aydin and names like it
- Compare Aydin and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAydin peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aydin since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aydin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Aydin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aydin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.