Meaning not yet researched.
Hayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,268 in 2025. Its best rank was #71 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #71 in 2007; #161 in 2025. About 76% of babies named Hayden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#161 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #71.
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Hayden: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,268 boys in 2025. Peak: #71 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 6,470 (2006).
In 2025, 2,268 US boys were named Hayden, making it the 161st most common boys’ name of the year, down 7 places from #154 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 2,341 boys named Hayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #71, reached in 2007. The most boys given the name in a single year was 6,470, in 2006. For comparison, it was #150 in 2015 and #1,056 in 1950.
In 2025, 707 US girls were named Hayden, making it the 437th most common girls’ name of the year, down 35 places from #402 in 2024. That is 82 fewer than the 789 girls named Hayden in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #127, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,662. For comparison, it was #191 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hayden in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 147,508 US babies have been given the name, 23% of them girls and 77% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 60,536 babies named Hayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,459 US boys were named Hayden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,394. In 2025 that was about 1 in 753 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hayden ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #42 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Haydn (2,247 babies since 1880), Haiden (6,059 babies since 1880), Haden (4,053 babies since 1880) and Haidyn (2,945 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Haydyn, Haedyn and Hadden are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Haydyn (599), Haedyn (580), Hadden (539), Haydan (395), Haeden (297), Haidan (67), Haidon (52), Haydenn (37), Haidin (26), Haiyden (7), Hadin (6), Hadan (5), 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 Hayden 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 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 10 | #42 | #116 |
| Iowa | 51 | #62 | #83 |
| Kentucky | 70 | #66 | #86 |
| West Virginia | 21 | #89 | #92 |
| South Carolina | 49 | #106 | #98 |
| Alabama | 46 | #114 | #91 |
| Montana | 11 | #117 | #151 |
| Minnesota | 53 | #119 | #117 |
| Idaho | 21 | #120 | #128 |
| Utah | 44 | #120 | #139 |
| Nebraska | 22 | #121 | #171 |
| Wisconsin | 50 | #123 | #143 |
| Virginia | 69 | #126 | #148 |
| Michigan | 79 | #127 | #163 |
| Ohio | 103 | #133 | #116 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | #135 | #112 |
| North Carolina | 91 | #136 | #117 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #136 | #61 |
| Maryland | 42 | #141 | #225 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #143 | #121 |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #146 | #160 |
| Missouri | 48 | #147 | #107 |
| Tennessee | 63 | #153 | #95 |
| Massachusetts | 46 | #155 | #205 |
| Washington | 53 | #159 | #134 |
| Georgia | 79 | #160 | #119 |
| Florida | 134 | #161 | #174 |
| Louisiana | 32 | #161 | #90 |
| Nevada | 19 | #164 | #209 |
| Colorado | 44 | #164 | #127 |
| Oregon | 25 | #165 | #133 |
| Mississippi | 18 | #177 | #65 |
| Indiana | 48 | #179 | #122 |
| Kansas | 22 | #181 | #110 |
| Arizona | 47 | #185 | #177 |
| Maine | 7 | #186 | #104 |
| New Mexico | 11 | #187 | #223 |
| Texas | 197 | #196 | #172 |
| Illinois | 59 | #199 | #202 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #203 | #95 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #203 | #106 |
| New York | 88 | #225 | #219 |
| California | 166 | #225 | #280 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #231 | #181 |
| New Jersey | 34 | #269 | #338 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #289 | #250 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 707 | #437 | 2,268 | #161 |
| 2024 | 789 | #402 | 2,341 | #154 |
| 2023 | 834 | #368 | 2,233 | #162 |
| 2022 | 937 | #344 | 2,303 | #162 |
| 2021 | 1,101 | #290 | 2,210 | #175 |
| 2020 | 1,086 | #298 | 2,157 | #177 |
| 2019 | 1,139 | #294 | 2,070 | #190 |
| 2018 | 1,250 | #262 | 2,183 | #180 |
| 2017 | 1,359 | #232 | 2,300 | #172 |
| 2016 | 1,577 | #206 | 2,394 | #168 |
| 2015 | 1,711 | #191 | 2,750 | #150 |
| 2014 | 1,668 | #201 | 2,891 | #140 |
| 2013 | 1,685 | #193 | 2,971 | #129 |
| 2012 | 1,614 | #197 | 3,547 | #109 |
| 2011 | 1,692 | #187 | 4,603 | #90 |
| 2010 | 1,892 | #162 | 4,196 | #96 |
| 2009 | 2,475 | #131 | 4,868 | #91 |
| 2008 | 2,662 | #127 | 5,949 | #76 |
| 2007 | 1,737 | #195 | 6,278 | #71 |
| 2006 | 761 | #418 | 6,470 | #73 |
| 2005 | 747 | #417 | 5,916 | #76 |
| 2004 | 483 | #582 | 5,019 | #87 |
| 2003 | 490 | #570 | 5,101 | #84 |
| 2002 | 419 | #610 | 4,142 | #96 |
| 2001 | 365 | #682 | 3,262 | #117 |
| 2000 | 348 | #685 | 3,044 | #129 |
| 1999 | 268 | #812 | 2,414 | #150 |
| 1998 | 254 | #837 | 2,143 | #160 |
| 1997 | 183 | #1,046 | 2,069 | #167 |
| 1996 | 183 | #1,023 | 2,015 | #168 |
| 1995 | 158 | #1,122 | 1,895 | #172 |
| 1994 | 153 | #1,161 | 1,792 | #176 |
| 1993 | 140 | #1,240 | 1,326 | #224 |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,438 | 1,159 | #249 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,840 | 926 | #282 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,757 | 611 | #379 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,629 | 239 | #648 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,892 | 115 | #893 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,363 | 125 | #834 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,483 | 89 | #975 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,329 | 80 | #1,023 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,809 | 70 | #1,071 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,576 | 63 | #1,135 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,815 | 78 | #1,026 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,603 | 67 | #1,116 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,454 | 80 | #1,013 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,918 | 63 | #1,131 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,767 | 55 | #1,208 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,028 | 48 | #1,295 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,341 | 49 | #1,244 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,218 | 40 | #1,388 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,488 | 36 | #1,453 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,281 | 42 | #1,281 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,618 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,714 | 39 | #1,361 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,381 | 45 | #1,242 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,929 | 41 | #1,240 |
| 1968 | — | — | 32 | #1,377 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,424 |
| 1966 | — | — | 24 | #1,600 |
| 1965 | — | — | 31 | #1,392 |
| 1964 | — | — | 37 | #1,296 |
| 1963 | — | — | 28 | #1,495 |
| 1962 | — | — | 38 | #1,263 |
| 1961 | — | — | 30 | #1,478 |
| 1960 | — | — | 35 | #1,348 |
| 1959 | — | — | 45 | #1,162 |
| 1958 | — | — | 30 | #1,430 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,602 |
| 1956 | — | — | 37 | #1,269 |
| 1955 | — | — | 24 | #1,586 |
| 1954 | — | — | 36 | #1,254 |
| 1953 | — | — | 32 | #1,345 |
| 1952 | — | — | 28 | #1,442 |
| 1951 | — | — | 37 | #1,204 |
| 1950 | — | — | 45 | #1,056 |
| 1949 | — | — | 35 | #1,214 |
| 1948 | — | — | 41 | #1,115 |
| 1947 | — | — | 55 | #959 |
| 1946 | — | — | 44 | #1,035 |
| 1945 | — | — | 38 | #1,048 |
| 1944 | — | — | 47 | #939 |
| 1943 | — | — | 49 | #966 |
| 1942 | — | — | 47 | #976 |
| 1941 | — | — | 42 | #996 |
| 1940 | — | — | 37 | #1,077 |
| 1939 | — | — | 29 | #1,227 |
| 1938 | — | — | 37 | #1,067 |
| 1937 | — | — | 36 | #1,080 |
| 1936 | — | — | 44 | #929 |
| 1935 | — | — | 52 | #876 |
| 1934 | — | — | 48 | #913 |
| 1933 | — | — | 41 | #1,004 |
| 1932 | — | — | 43 | #1,014 |
| 1931 | — | — | 38 | #1,106 |
| 1930 | — | — | 50 | #963 |
| 1929 | — | — | 50 | #955 |
| 1928 | — | — | 56 | #895 |
| 1927 | — | — | 54 | #943 |
| 1926 | — | — | 58 | #882 |
| 1925 | — | — | 62 | #848 |
| 1924 | — | — | 60 | #903 |
| 1923 | — | — | 76 | #753 |
| 1922 | — | — | 70 | #804 |
| 1921 | — | — | 70 | #818 |
| 1920 | — | — | 64 | #848 |
| 1919 | — | — | 66 | #806 |
| 1918 | — | — | 65 | #811 |
| 1917 | — | — | 69 | #755 |
| 1916 | — | — | 61 | #793 |
| 1915 | — | — | 67 | #726 |
| 1914 | — | — | 46 | #781 |
| 1913 | — | — | 39 | #752 |
| 1912 | — | — | 43 | #643 |
| 1911 | — | — | 19 | #740 |
| 1910 | — | — | 12 | #952 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #780 |
| 1908 | — | — | 9 | #984 |
| 1907 | — | — | 9 | #960 |
| 1906 | — | — | 11 | #780 |
| 1905 | — | — | 10 | #813 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #840 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #956 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,209 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #895 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #871 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #746 |
| 1898 | — | — | 11 | #682 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #820 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #855 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #927 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,107 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #826 |
| 1891 | — | — | 9 | #665 |
| 1890 | — | — | 8 | #778 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #924 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #972 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #873 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,005 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #973 |
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).