Hayden — #154 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hayden

The Social Security Administration has registered 111,803 babies named Hayden between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hayden currently holds the #154 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 6,470 babies received it in a single year. Hayden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 32,710 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hayden performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 50,049 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Hayden shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11,130 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Hayden in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hayden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 111,803 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.