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Aaden vs Aadyn

American parents have registered 5,079 Aadens since 1880, against 611 Aadyns. Aaden is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aaden against Aadyn, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aaden Aadyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aaden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2001 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Aaden had 15 and Aadyn had 11.

Side by side

  Aaden Aadyn
Total US births 5,079611
Most in one year 1,27483
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 5,000610
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 271st boys1,889th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 20012003
Girls / boys 5 / 5,07416 / 595

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aadens alive today are over 15; half the Aadyns are over 13. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aaden and Aadyn.