Raiden
Raiden was given to 739 boys in 2025, #432 among boys’ names; 13,141 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,000 Americans named Raiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raiden is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Possible a modern variant of Rayden, or a coinage rhyming with Braiden, Jaiden, etc.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raiden?
#432 among boys’ names, 2025
Raiden rose from #471 in 2015 to #432 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.33 to 0.43 per 1,000.
969 babies in 2022, the peak
Raiden peaked in 2022, when 969 babies were given it (935 boys, #353 among boys’ names). The 757 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 78% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 739 | #432 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 705 | #448 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 751 | #423 | 0.44 |
| 2022 | 935 | #353 | 0.54 |
| 2021 | 844 | #382 | 0.48 |
| 2020 | 747 | #403 | 0.43 |
| 2019 | 825 | #381 | 0.46 |
| 2018 | 727 | #424 | 0.40 |
| 2017 | 800 | #400 | 0.43 |
| 2016 | 740 | #424 | 0.39 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 633 | #471 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 594 | #479 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 505 | #527 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 489 | #534 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 477 | #535 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 378 | #639 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 364 | #671 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 285 | #780 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 210 | #944 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 180 | #1,023 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,125 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 146 | #1,088 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,145 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,416 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 66 | #1,735 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,561 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,328 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 37 | #2,380 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,368 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,419 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,141 Americans recorded as Raiden, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 18 girls and 739 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raiden, and how old are they?
13,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,141 Americans ever recorded as Raiden. The median Raiden alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 7,182 people named Raiden (280 women and girls, 6,902 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 40 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,830 |
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 Raiden born?
The states with the most babies named Raiden are Texas, California and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 91 | #392 | 1.0× |
| California | 75 | #430 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 56 | #354 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 34 | #355 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 29 | #387 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 29 | #266 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #425 | 0.8× |
| New York | 24 | #634 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 20 | #375 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 20 | #277 | 1.2× |
Where Raiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raiden is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1993 it was given 4.2 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 Raiden 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 22,007 babies since 1880, Raiden is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 757 of their 1,134 babies (67%), again the 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 Raiden
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 Raiden and names like it
- Compare Raiden and RaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRaiden peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raiden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Raiden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Raiden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raiden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.