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Aideliz vs Aiden

American parents have registered 259,912 Aidens since 1880, against 114 Aidelizes. Aiden is still ahead, with 5,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aideliz against Aiden, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aideliz Aiden

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

Aiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Aideliz had 91 and Aiden had 15,733.

Side by side

  Aideliz Aiden
Total US births 114259,912
Most in one year 9116,143
Babies in 2025 under 55,073
Estimated living today 110257,000
Median age today 1713
Peak year 20082009
Best rank 2,184th girls12th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked62nd
First recorded 20081970
Girls / boys 114 / 02,147 / 257,765

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 Aidelizes alive today are over 17; half the Aidens are over 13. That is 4 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: Aideliz and Aiden.