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Aidan vs Aidsa

American parents have registered 121,158 Aidans since 1880, against 30 Aidsas. Aidan is still ahead, with 1,051 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aidan against Aidsa, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aidan Aidsa

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

Aidan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1936 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Aidan had 8,553 and Aidsa had 30.

Side by side

  Aidan Aidsa
Total US births 121,15830
Most in one year 10,29630
Babies in 2025 1,051under 5
Estimated living today 119,00030
Median age today 1918
Peak year 20032007
Best rank 39th boys4,808th girls
Rank in 2025 326thunranked
First recorded 19362007
Girls / boys 2,727 / 118,43130 / 0

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.

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