Meaning not yet researched.
Raiden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 739 in 2025. Its best rank was #353 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #353 in 2022; #432 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Raiden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#432 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #353.
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Raiden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 739 boys in 2025. Peak: #353 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 935 (2022).
In 2025, 739 US boys were named Raiden, making it the 432nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 16 places from #448 in 2024. That is 34 more than the 705 boys named Raiden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #353, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 935. For comparison, it was #471 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raiden in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 7 babies. In all, 13,141 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,406 babies named Raiden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,813 US boys were named Raiden; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 935. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,311 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raiden ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #85 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Rayden (6,937 babies since 1880) and Raidyn (751 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raedyn, Raeden and Raydon 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: Raedyn (453), Raeden (372), Raydon (319), Raidon (168), Raden (165), Raydin (154), Raydan (137), Radin (119), Raidan (79), Raydyn (74), Raedean (58), Radene (32), 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 Raiden 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 11 | #85 | #193 |
| Alaska | 5 | #189 | #215 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #260 | #386 |
| Washington | 29 | #266 | #306 |
| Kentucky | 20 | #277 | #280 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #287 | #285 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #327 | #530 |
| Missouri | 19 | #343 | #321 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #350 | #340 |
| Florida | 56 | #354 | #518 |
| Georgia | 34 | #355 | #515 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #370 | #449 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #372 | #418 |
| Indiana | 20 | #375 | #406 |
| Nevada | 8 | #383 | #355 |
| Ohio | 29 | #387 | #437 |
| Texas | 91 | #392 | #406 |
| Alabama | 14 | #395 | #554 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #407 | #519 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #425 | #402 |
| California | 75 | #430 | #503 |
| Utah | 11 | #433 | #439 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #443 | #569 |
| Colorado | 13 | #461 | #407 |
| Iowa | 7 | #485 | #499 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #508 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #542 | #619 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #545 | #448 |
| Virginia | 14 | #550 | #572 |
| Michigan | 15 | #560 | #701 |
| Kansas | 6 | #577 | #457 |
| Oregon | 6 | #583 | #620 |
| Arizona | 12 | #588 | #420 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #602 | #694 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #607 | #437 |
| Maryland | 8 | #618 | #768 |
| Illinois | 15 | #623 | #1,059 |
| New York | 24 | #634 | #755 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #688 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,498 | 739 | #432 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,261 | 705 | #448 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,634 | 751 | #423 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,273 | 935 | #353 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,528 | 844 | #382 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,895 | 747 | #403 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,323 | 825 | #381 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,748 | 727 | #424 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,151 | 800 | #400 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,694 | 740 | #424 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,266 | 633 | #471 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,930 | 594 | #479 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,958 | 505 | #527 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,521 | 489 | #534 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,113 | 477 | #535 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,306 | 378 | #639 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,363 | 364 | #671 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,370 | 285 | #780 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,635 | 210 | #944 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,454 | 180 | #1,023 |
| 2005 | — | — | 146 | #1,126 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,155 | 146 | #1,089 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,489 | 132 | #1,146 |
| 2002 | — | — | 92 | #1,419 |
| 2001 | — | — | 66 | #1,739 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,566 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,331 |
| 1998 | — | — | 37 | #2,383 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #4,013 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,374 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,838 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,425 |
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).