Meaning not yet researched.
Ayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,343 in 2025. Its best rank was #68 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #68 in 2012; #257 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Ayden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#257 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #68.
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Ayden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,343 boys in 2025. Peak: #68 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 6,234 (2012).
In 2025, 1,343 US boys were named Ayden, making it the 257th most common boys’ name of the year, down 44 places from #213 in 2024. That is 341 fewer than the 1,684 boys named Ayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #68, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 6,234. For comparison, it was #87 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ayden in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 91,630 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 50,498 babies named Ayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 28,326 US boys were named Ayden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,506. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,272 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ayden ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #169 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), Adan (31,624 babies since 1880) and Aden (22,517 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ayedin and Aydenne 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: Ayedin (37), Aydenne (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 Ayden 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 6 | #169 | #59 |
| Florida | 128 | #171 | #62 |
| New York | 111 | #173 | #83 |
| Georgia | 69 | #182 | #53 |
| Nevada | 16 | #189 | #60 |
| Mississippi | 16 | #190 | #22 |
| Alabama | 29 | #196 | #71 |
| South Carolina | 28 | #201 | #48 |
| New Jersey | 44 | #215 | #73 |
| Kansas | 18 | #219 | #132 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #221 | #113 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #239 | #124 |
| Louisiana | 21 | #240 | #44 |
| California | 154 | #241 | #87 |
| Arizona | 33 | #243 | #111 |
| Texas | 154 | #254 | #68 |
| Maryland | 21 | #257 | #83 |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #261 | #115 |
| Illinois | 43 | #261 | #86 |
| Michigan | 38 | #264 | #112 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #264 | #61 |
| North Carolina | 45 | #271 | #59 |
| Missouri | 24 | #281 | #110 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #296 | #193 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #301 | #98 |
| Virginia | 26 | #316 | #73 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #320 | #118 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #349 | #74 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #349 | #90 |
| Indiana | 21 | #350 | #128 |
| Ohio | 31 | #357 | #101 |
| Minnesota | 16 | #357 | #229 |
| Colorado | 14 | #420 | #121 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #448 | #49 |
| Washington | 16 | #450 | #172 |
| Utah | 7 | #563 | #150 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,584 | 1,343 | #257 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,399 | 1,684 | #213 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,409 | 1,912 | #190 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,978 | 2,198 | #171 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,164 | 2,642 | #143 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,931 | 3,025 | #122 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,178 | 3,367 | #114 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,354 | 3,685 | #104 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,312 | 3,964 | #99 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,939 | 4,506 | #92 |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,476 | 4,891 | #87 |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,308 | 5,632 | #74 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,957 | 6,084 | #71 |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,782 | 6,234 | #68 |
| 2011 | 144 | #1,526 | 6,129 | #70 |
| 2010 | 163 | #1,407 | 5,144 | #78 |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,358 | 4,998 | #87 |
| 2008 | 210 | #1,212 | 5,058 | #91 |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,374 | 4,325 | #102 |
| 2006 | 148 | #1,489 | 3,596 | #119 |
| 2005 | 155 | #1,390 | 2,722 | #147 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,546 | 2,183 | #182 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,563 | 1,830 | #201 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,918 | 863 | #321 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,708 | 452 | #506 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,278 | 268 | #667 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,900 | 149 | #966 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,505 | 120 | #1,081 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,209 | 63 | #1,600 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,002 | 39 | #2,148 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,353 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,891 | 17 | #3,760 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,723 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,576 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,222 |
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).