Meaning not yet researched.
Aden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 224 in 2025. Its best rank was #244 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #244 in 2006; #1,008 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Aden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,008 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #244.
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Aden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 224 boys in 2025. Peak: #244 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 1,408 (2006).
In 2025, 224 US boys were named Aden, making it the 1,008th most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #998 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 225 boys named Aden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #244, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,408. For comparison, it was #370 in 2015 and #3,022 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aden in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 22,517 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 9,982 babies named Aden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,118 US boys were named Aden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 702. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,625 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aden ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #570 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aiden (259,912 babies since 1880), Aidan (121,158 babies since 1880), Ayden (91,630 babies since 1880) and Adan (31,624 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 Aden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 8 | #570 | #398 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #577 | #360 |
| Ohio | 14 | #650 | #412 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #692 | #404 |
| Michigan | 10 | #716 | #341 |
| Washington | 7 | #801 | #568 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #810 | #581 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #842 | #249 |
| Missouri | 5 | #869 | #281 |
| Florida | 16 | #887 | #366 |
| Georgia | 9 | #919 | #228 |
| New York | 13 | #950 | #270 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,029 | #453 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,070 | #397 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,090 | #387 |
| California | 18 | #1,121 | #407 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,134 | #421 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,467 | 224 | #1,008 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,973 | 225 | #998 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,930 | 291 | #835 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,550 | 306 | #813 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,984 | 393 | #678 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,976 | 396 | #665 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,121 | 443 | #614 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,626 | 555 | #509 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,097 | 583 | #497 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,989 | 702 | #440 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,624 | 871 | #370 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,626 | 1,003 | #335 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,039 | 1,111 | #309 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,709 | 1,155 | #299 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,807 | 1,212 | #289 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,224 | 1,174 | #288 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,679 | 1,375 | #253 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,360 | 1,393 | #253 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,786 | 1,315 | #265 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,551 | 1,408 | #244 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,582 | 1,202 | #279 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,690 | 1,035 | #305 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,944 | 922 | #321 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,281 | 516 | #465 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,704 | 330 | #598 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,490 | 181 | #873 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,491 | 121 | #1,100 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,269 | 88 | #1,348 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,340 | 63 | #1,599 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,815 | 55 | #1,705 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,521 | 48 | #1,801 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,811 | 53 | #1,690 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,602 | 32 | #2,349 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,494 | 35 | #2,175 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,277 | 26 | #2,608 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,205 | 23 | #2,780 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,448 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,350 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,832 | 16 | #3,074 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,891 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,019 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,270 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,676 |
| 1982 | — | — | 23 | #2,208 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,031 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,112 |
| 1979 | — | — | 25 | #2,048 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,134 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,063 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,245 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,637 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,946 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,857 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,152 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,371 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,794 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,063 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,311 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,030 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,249 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,856 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,200 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,506 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,411 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,874 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,033 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,372 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,375 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,799 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,830 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,804 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,096 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,495 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,022 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,022 |
| 1947 | — | — | 14 | #2,076 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,403 |
| 1945 | — | — | 13 | #1,926 |
| 1944 | — | — | 12 | #2,080 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,736 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,217 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,135 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,894 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #1,958 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,901 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,176 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,872 |
| 1935 | — | — | 13 | #2,029 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,121 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,739 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,103 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,445 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,452 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,522 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,704 |
| 1926 | — | — | 15 | #2,074 |
| 1925 | — | — | 17 | #1,935 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,043 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,774 |
| 1922 | — | — | 15 | #2,145 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,266 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,460 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,667 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,829 |
| 1917 | — | — | 13 | #2,188 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #1,949 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #1,968 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,104 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,499 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,548 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,741 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,009 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #967 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #973 |
| 1880 | — | — | 7 | #745 |
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).