Haiden
Haiden is given to both girls and boys: 34 girls and 149 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,214 among girls’ names and #1,306 among boys’, #2,345 among all names counting both); 6,059 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,990 Americans named Haiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haiden is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Hayden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haiden?
#1,306 among boys’ names, 2025
Haiden fell from #986 in 2015 to #1,306 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.09 per 1,000.
419 babies in 2008, the peak
Haiden peaked in 2008, when 419 babies were given it (285 boys, #779 among boys’ names). The 183 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,214 | 149 | #1,306 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,144 | 144 | #1,333 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,169 | 136 | #1,371 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,845 | 110 | #1,599 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,957 | 114 | #1,541 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,953 | 100 | #1,613 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,473 | 108 | #1,552 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,412 | 130 | #1,362 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,847 | 148 | #1,239 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,985 | 176 | #1,112 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,483 | 210 | #986 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,854 | 162 | #1,165 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,271 | 159 | #1,141 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,246 | 170 | #1,097 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,200 | 206 | #962 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,851 | 213 | #944 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,646 | 226 | #915 |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,668 | 285 | #779 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,152 | 260 | #827 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,586 | 227 | #874 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,560 | 168 | #1,011 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,767 | 175 | #959 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,248 | 149 | #1,046 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,106 | 86 | #1,474 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,811 | 67 | #1,718 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,701 | 65 | #1,726 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,827 | 35 | #2,519 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,013 | 29 | #2,809 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,992 | 18 | #3,789 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,930 | 17 | #3,886 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,696 | 20 | #3,351 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,535 | 20 | #3,368 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,978 | 9 | #5,920 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,989 | 18 | #3,506 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,028 | 11 | #4,879 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,686 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Haiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,059 Americans recorded as Haiden, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Haiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haiden, and how old are they?
5,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,059 Americans ever recorded as Haiden. The median Haiden alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,487 people named Haiden (1,360 women and girls, 3,127 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,088 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 | 169 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,460 |
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 Haiden born?
The states with the most babies named Haiden are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,516 | 0.8× |
| California | 10 | #1,631 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,220 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #874 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,052 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 7 | #938 | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 7 | #441 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,268 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,363 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #826 | 0.0× |
Where Haiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Haiden is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1990 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 Haiden 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 163,808 babies since 1880, Haiden is the second most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 183 of their 3,270 babies (5.6%), 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 Haiden
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 Haiden and names like it
- Compare Haiden and HaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHaiden peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haiden since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Haiden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Haiden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Haiden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.