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Aiyden vs Ayden

American parents have registered 91,630 Aydens since 1880, against 989 Aiydens. Ayden is still ahead, with 1,365 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aiyden against Ayden, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aiyden Ayden

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

Ayden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Aiyden had 48 and Ayden had 1,935.

Side by side

  Aiyden Ayden
Total US births 98991,630
Most in one year 946,349
Babies in 2025 141,365
Estimated living today 98091,000
Median age today 913
Peak year 20152012
Best rank 1,668th boys68th boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rd257th
First recorded 20031990
Girls / boys 0 / 9892,450 / 89,180

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 Aydens alive today are over 13; half the Aiydens are over 9. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aiyden Ayden
France 517,085
England and Wales 92,793

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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