Meaning not yet researched.
Aedan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #759 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #759 in 2006; #3,659 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aedan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,659 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #759.
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Aedan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #759 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 283 (2007).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Aedan, making it the 3,659th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,098 places from #2,561 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 52 boys named Aedan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #759, reached in 2006. The most boys given the name in a single year was 283, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,132 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aedan in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 3,905 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,821 babies named Aedan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 813 US boys were named Aedan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 162. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aidan (121,158 babies since 1880), Aiden (259,912 babies since 1880), Ayden (91,630 babies since 1880) and Adan (31,624 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aeddon are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aeddon (26).
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 Aedan 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 | — | — | 30 | #3,659 |
| 2024 | — | — | 52 | #2,561 |
| 2023 | — | — | 36 | #3,295 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,518 |
| 2021 | — | — | 49 | #2,625 |
| 2020 | — | — | 77 | #1,911 |
| 2019 | — | — | 95 | #1,678 |
| 2018 | — | — | 114 | #1,506 |
| 2017 | — | — | 144 | #1,264 |
| 2016 | — | — | 162 | #1,175 |
| 2015 | — | — | 168 | #1,132 |
| 2014 | — | — | 171 | #1,118 |
| 2013 | — | — | 166 | #1,107 |
| 2012 | — | — | 165 | #1,115 |
| 2011 | — | — | 184 | #1,031 |
| 2010 | — | — | 235 | #886 |
| 2009 | — | — | 261 | #831 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,602 | 265 | #827 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,694 | 283 | #774 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,628 | 278 | #759 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,525 | 207 | #879 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,152 | 129 | #1,191 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,826 | 110 | #1,282 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,482 | 102 | #1,305 |
| 2001 | — | — | 82 | #1,481 |
| 2000 | — | — | 61 | #1,782 |
| 1999 | — | — | 48 | #1,996 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,552 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,905 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,832 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,285 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,808 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,820 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,440 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,247 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,293 |
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).