Haydn
Haydn is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,751 among girls’ names and #5,954 among boys’, #10,402 among all names counting both); 2,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Haydn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haydn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Haydn?
#5,954 among boys’ names, 2025
Haydn fell from #3,813 in 2015 to #5,954 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 8.8 per million.
124 babies in 2008, the peak
Haydn peaked in 2008, when 124 babies were given it (90 boys, #1,696 among boys’ names). The 20 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,751 | 15 | #5,954 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 15 | #6,002 | |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,856 | 22 | #4,646 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,720 | 28 | #3,925 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,823 | 33 | #3,443 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,065 | 23 | #4,318 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 26 | #4,046 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,956 | 30 | #3,642 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,466 | 32 | #3,472 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,175 | 30 | #3,622 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,397 | 28 | #3,813 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,332 | 42 | #2,824 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,748 | 34 | #3,220 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,583 | 43 | #2,792 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,346 | 58 | #2,243 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,414 | 66 | #2,059 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,605 | 81 | #1,832 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,486 | 90 | #1,696 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,917 | 91 | #1,673 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,442 | 80 | #1,747 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,636 | 94 | #1,516 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,971 | 101 | #1,406 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,339 | 104 | #1,329 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,058 | 88 | #1,449 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,897 | 76 | #1,574 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,186 | 78 | #1,541 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,502 | 51 | #1,907 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,253 | 46 | #2,045 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,433 | 37 | #2,277 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,876 | 39 | #2,156 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,226 | 56 | #1,628 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,324 | 38 | #2,136 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,328 | 30 | #2,467 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,298 | 30 | #2,422 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 11 | #4,887 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #6,038 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,326 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #4,940 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,777 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,631 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,519 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,208 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,053 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #3,927 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 7 | #3,073 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #3,997 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,912 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #3,927 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,627 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,584 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,578 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,586 |
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 Haydn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,247 Americans recorded as Haydn, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Haydn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haydn, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,247 Americans ever recorded as Haydn. The median Haydn alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,009 people named Haydn (353 women and girls, 1,656 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,013 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 263 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 163,808 babies since 1880, Haydn is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 3,270 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Haydn
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 Haydn and names like it
- Compare Haydn and HaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHaydn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haydn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Haydn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Haydn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.