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Aiden

Boys' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~257,600 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#62 among boys
Births in 2025
5,073 259,912 since 1880
Typical age
13 years, median

Aiden popularity over time

Aiden rank by birth year, 1970–2025Aiden ranked #4,230 in 1970 and #62 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #9, in 2010.#10#100#1,000#62best #9 in 2010197019801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1970–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Aiden in 2009 than in any other year — 16,143 of them. 1970 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. Aiden has spent 23 years inside the national top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #62 with 5,073 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 63%. Year on year the rank dropped by 15.

Babies named Aiden per yearPeaks at 16,143 births in 2009.16,143 in 20090197019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Aiden?

Roughly 257,600 Aidens are alive in the US right now. That is out of 259,912 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Aiden?

Half of living Aidens are older than 13, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Aiden a millennial-era name.

Your Aiden

Ages of living people named AidenHalf of living Aidens are older than 13 and half younger.median 1302040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Aiden is most common

Aiden is 2.0× as common in Hawaii as it is nationally. Delaware, District of Columbia and New Mexico follow.

Where Aiden is used more than average5 states use the name Aiden more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: 1.6× the national rateWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 1.8× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 1.7× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 1.7× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 2.0× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Aiden is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Hawaii 301 2.0×
Delaware 248 1.8×
District of Columbia 270 1.7×
New Mexico 530 1.7×
Wyoming 89 1.6×

Aiden in England and Wales

ONS recorded 298 births named Aiden in 2025, ranking it #170. That is 36% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Aiden comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Irish.

Notable people named Aiden

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Aiden McGeady Irish association football player 1986 47
Aiden O'Neill Australian soccer player 1998 25
Aiden Shaw British pornographic actor and model 1966 16
Aiden Markram South African cricketer 1994 16
Aiden O'Brien English-born Irish professional footballer 1993 11
Aiden Curtiss British-American fashion model 1998 8
Photo credits (3)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 2,910 in 2002 to 5,790 in 2003 — 2.0 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Aiden

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Aiden was in 2025.

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