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Eiden vs Eider

American parents have registered 2,129 Eidens since 1880, against 749 Eiders. Eiden is still ahead, with 558 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eiden against Eider, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eiden Eider

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

Eiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2004 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Eiden had 312 and Eider had 217.

Side by side

  Eiden Eider
Total US births 2,129749
Most in one year 558217
Babies in 2025 558204
Estimated living today 2,100750
Median age today 21
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 536th boys1,026th boys
Rank in 2025 536th1,064th
First recorded 20042016
Girls / boys 0 / 2,1297 / 742

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.

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: Eiden and Eider.