Meaning not yet researched.
Aayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,048 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,048 in 2014; #6,144 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aayden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,144 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,048.
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Aayden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,048 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 190 (2014).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Aayden, making it the 6,144th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,758 places from #9,902 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 7 boys named Aayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,048, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 190. For comparison, it was #1,089 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aayden in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 11 babies. In all, 1,720 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,325 babies named Aayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 526 US boys were named Aayden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aiden (259,912 babies since 1880), Ayden (91,630 babies since 1880), Aden (22,517 babies since 1880) and Aydin (6,696 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aayden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,144 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #9,902 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,075 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,702 |
| 2021 | — | — | 30 | #3,651 |
| 2020 | — | — | 45 | #2,728 |
| 2019 | — | — | 63 | #2,214 |
| 2018 | — | — | 96 | #1,663 |
| 2017 | — | — | 96 | #1,644 |
| 2016 | — | — | 135 | #1,326 |
| 2015 | — | — | 179 | #1,089 |
| 2014 | — | — | 190 | #1,048 |
| 2013 | — | — | 147 | #1,216 |
| 2012 | — | — | 138 | #1,273 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,774 | 148 | #1,193 |
| 2010 | — | — | 128 | #1,331 |
| 2009 | — | — | 99 | #1,604 |
| 2008 | — | — | 68 | #2,039 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | #3,135 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,384 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #11,480 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,539 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,259 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).