Meaning not yet researched.
Aiden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,046 in 2025. Its best rank was #9 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #9 in 2011; #62 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Aiden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#62 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #9.
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Aiden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,046 boys in 2025. Peak: #9 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 16,030 (2009).
In 2025, 5,046 US boys were named Aiden, making it the 62nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #47 in 2024. That is 1,216 fewer than the 6,262 boys named Aiden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #9, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 16,030, in 2009. For comparison, it was #13 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aiden in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 259,912 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 130,322 babies named Aiden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 85,884 US boys were named Aiden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 12,269. In 2025 that was about 1 in 339 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aiden ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #30 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 38 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Eden (63,400 babies since 1880), Jaiden (41,574 babies since 1880), Aidan (121,158 babies since 1880) and Ayden (91,630 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adon, Aidin and Aydon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Adon (937), Aidin (752), Aydon (698), Aedyn (662), Aadyn (611), Aidon (537), Adien (487), Aydyn (401), Aidden (340), Aideen (200), Aidenn (194), Aedin (193), and more.
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 Aiden 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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 21 | #30 | #17 |
| Mississippi | 54 | #31 | #6 |
| Maryland | 117 | #35 | #12 |
| Delaware | 20 | #35 | #7 |
| New Jersey | 192 | #39 | #18 |
| New York | 355 | #40 | #12 |
| Hawaii | 17 | #45 | #6 |
| Virginia | 153 | #45 | #13 |
| Louisiana | 73 | #46 | #8 |
| Georgia | 188 | #48 | #6 |
| California | 677 | #51 | #11 |
| Florida | 360 | #52 | #13 |
| Texas | 603 | #53 | #11 |
| Arkansas | 49 | #56 | #13 |
| Massachusetts | 106 | #56 | #30 |
| Nevada | 45 | #58 | #14 |
| Colorado | 91 | #64 | #27 |
| Illinois | 157 | #67 | #13 |
| Oregon | 54 | #67 | #28 |
| Rhode Island | 15 | #68 | #12 |
| Arizona | 105 | #69 | #8 |
| Pennsylvania | 168 | #69 | #19 |
| Michigan | 125 | #70 | #18 |
| Connecticut | 50 | #71 | #22 |
| Utah | 63 | #72 | #29 |
| North Carolina | 158 | #72 | #10 |
| South Carolina | 67 | #72 | #11 |
| Tennessee | 111 | #73 | #10 |
| Oklahoma | 55 | #73 | #21 |
| New Mexico | 23 | #75 | #6 |
| Washington | 96 | #76 | #24 |
| Minnesota | 73 | #79 | #29 |
| Vermont | 6 | #80 | #40 |
| Ohio | 139 | #84 | #19 |
| Wisconsin | 64 | #91 | #21 |
| Maine | 14 | #91 | #48 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #91 | #29 |
| Montana | 12 | #96 | #20 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #107 | #29 |
| Indiana | 71 | #109 | #32 |
| Alaska | 7 | #110 | #22 |
| Kansas | 33 | #114 | #23 |
| Missouri | 61 | #116 | #23 |
| West Virginia | 15 | #127 | #24 |
| Iowa | 32 | #127 | #27 |
| Kentucky | 43 | #129 | #11 |
| Nebraska | 19 | #136 | #28 |
| Idaho | 19 | #144 | #27 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #146 | #25 |
| Alabama | 36 | #157 | #16 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #157 | #25 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,882 | 5,046 | #62 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,153 | 6,262 | #47 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,129 | 6,701 | #40 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,471 | 7,852 | #29 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,507 | 8,313 | #26 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,180 | 8,619 | #24 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,501 | 9,403 | #20 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,919 | 10,062 | #19 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,480 | 11,357 | #17 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,657 | 12,269 | #16 |
| 2015 | 60 | #2,890 | 13,506 | #13 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,922 | 13,438 | #14 |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,439 | 13,649 | #12 |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,145 | 14,924 | #10 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,088 | 15,520 | #9 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,873 | 15,547 | #9 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,866 | 16,030 | #12 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,605 | 15,592 | #16 |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,370 | 13,113 | #27 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,552 | 11,591 | #32 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,574 | 9,083 | #50 |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,593 | 7,161 | #60 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,769 | 5,684 | #73 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,144 | 2,832 | #135 |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,360 | 1,587 | #217 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,632 | 881 | #324 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,571 | 479 | #473 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,832 | 367 | #545 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,547 | 264 | #638 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,283 | 174 | #825 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,520 | 140 | #937 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,715 | 86 | #1,254 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,609 | 50 | #1,721 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,002 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,545 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,612 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,385 | 14 | #3,812 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,395 | 14 | #3,527 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,465 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #6,741 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,599 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,575 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,257 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,484 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #4,855 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,860 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,315 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,237 |
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).