Laiden
Laiden was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,457 among boys’ names; 358 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laiden?
#7,457 among boys’ names, 2025
Laiden fell from #4,356 in 2015 to #7,457 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 6.4 per million.
24 babies in 2011, the peak
Laiden peaked in 2011, when 24 boys were given it, #4,170 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,457 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,794 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,367 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,535 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,863 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,497 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,285 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,677 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,032 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,052 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,356 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,629 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,296 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,474 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,170 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,913 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,450 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,659 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,473 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,189 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,900 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,427 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laiden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laiden, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Laiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 247 people named Laiden (33 women and girls, 214 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,371 babies since 1880, Laiden is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 40 babies (28%), 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 Laiden
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 Laiden and names like it
- Compare Laiden and LadonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLaiden peaked in 2011.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laiden since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Laiden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laiden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.