Meaning not yet researched.
Aidan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,043 in 2025. Its best rank was #39 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #39 in 2003; #326 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Aidan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#326 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #39.
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Aidan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,043 boys in 2025. Peak: #39 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 10,067 (2003).
In 2025, 1,043 US boys were named Aidan, making it the 326th most common boys’ name of the year, down 14 places from #312 in 2024. That is 55 fewer than the 1,098 boys named Aidan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #39, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 10,067. For comparison, it was #185 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aidan in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 121,158 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 78,126 babies named Aidan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,923 US boys were named Aidan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,638 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aidan ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #121 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aedan (3,905 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 Adyan, Adain and Aodhan 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: Adyan (578), Adain (341), Aodhan (317), Aidy (146), Aydian (119), Adiyan (49), Aydann (17), Ayedan (11), Aaydan (11), Aydain (9), Aadian (5).
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 Aidan 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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 7 | #121 | #169 |
| Massachusetts | 51 | #141 | #100 |
| Connecticut | 23 | #155 | #153 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #156 | #98 |
| New Jersey | 49 | #199 | #137 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #216 | #174 |
| Maryland | 26 | #221 | #155 |
| Michigan | 44 | #225 | #186 |
| Montana | 5 | #227 | #118 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #231 | #155 |
| New York | 78 | #245 | #118 |
| Virginia | 34 | #251 | #129 |
| Illinois | 41 | #268 | #175 |
| California | 133 | #278 | #164 |
| Colorado | 23 | #278 | #226 |
| Florida | 64 | #300 | #167 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #304 | #139 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #314 | #241 |
| Arizona | 23 | #332 | #168 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #335 | #289 |
| Texas | 110 | #345 | #221 |
| Oregon | 11 | #351 | #181 |
| Washington | 20 | #364 | #168 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #385 | #204 |
| Georgia | 30 | #386 | #204 |
| Ohio | 28 | #388 | #206 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #394 | #228 |
| Missouri | 15 | #419 | #201 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #430 | #254 |
| Nevada | 6 | #443 | #135 |
| Utah | 9 | #474 | #361 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #498 | #201 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #512 | #207 |
| Kansas | 6 | #524 | #197 |
| Indiana | 11 | #581 | #195 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #621 | #229 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #708 | #244 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,953 | 1,043 | #326 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,202 | 1,098 | #312 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,113 | #300 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,075 | 1,161 | #296 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,752 | 1,209 | #286 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,008 | 1,331 | #261 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,352 | 1,544 | #243 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,420 | 1,571 | #242 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,051 | 1,735 | #221 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,191 | 2,118 | #191 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,468 | 2,265 | #185 |
| 2014 | 21 | #5,995 | 2,280 | #187 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,890 | 2,676 | #146 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,712 | 3,225 | #116 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,132 | 3,721 | #107 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,309 | 4,311 | #94 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,376 | 5,811 | #72 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,800 | 7,709 | #59 |
| 2007 | 127 | #1,713 | 8,426 | #54 |
| 2006 | 169 | #1,365 | 10,035 | #44 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,378 | 9,759 | #43 |
| 2004 | 200 | #1,140 | 9,824 | #40 |
| 2003 | 229 | #1,008 | 10,067 | #39 |
| 2002 | 191 | #1,104 | 6,954 | #60 |
| 2001 | 194 | #1,090 | 4,632 | #86 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,310 | 3,296 | #114 |
| 1999 | 135 | #1,329 | 2,213 | #166 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,762 | 1,703 | #196 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,766 | 1,382 | #222 |
| 1996 | 70 | #1,994 | 1,093 | #259 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,669 | 973 | #282 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,235 | 517 | #440 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,990 | 332 | #557 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,037 | 269 | #630 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,401 | 167 | #797 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,551 | 134 | #890 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,293 | 81 | #1,184 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,173 | 54 | #1,427 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,614 | 52 | #1,400 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,727 | 71 | #1,118 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,352 | 54 | #1,304 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,544 | 34 | #1,691 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,219 | 28 | #1,905 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,892 | 28 | #1,929 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,806 | 35 | #1,661 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,918 | 28 | #1,965 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,022 | 21 | #2,312 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,718 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,558 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #2,000 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,205 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,800 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,670 | 16 | #2,405 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,154 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,379 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,509 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,415 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,576 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,762 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,466 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,248 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,047 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,307 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,079 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,824 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,563 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,554 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,554 |
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).