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Aiden

The boy's name Aiden has been in the national records since 1970, with 259,912 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 62nd. About 257,000 Aidens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Aiden boys named Aiden

By the numbers

Total US births
259,912
Estimated living today
257,000
Median age today
13
Peak year
2009
Best rank
12th
Rank in 2025
62nd
First recorded
1970
Girls / boys
2,147 / 257,765

How old the living Aidens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 259,912 babies given the name since 1970, about 257,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 204,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Aidens

People named Aiden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Aiden is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Aiden is most concentrated in Nevada (2.8×), Arizona (1.9×), Alaska (1.8×), Florida (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2009

The most popular boys’ names the year Aiden peaked:

All the names of 2009

Aiden elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Aiden 15,952 61st
Scotland boys Aiden 4,277 13th
France boys Aïden +1 spelling 3,535 283rd
Ireland boys Aiden 1,354 100th
New Zealand boys Aiden 1,135 50th
Belgium boys Aiden +1 spelling 1,056 137th
Switzerland boys Aiden +1 spelling 499 243rd
Italy boys Aiden 382
Norway boys Aiden 274 212th
Northern Ireland boys Aiden 212 149th
France girls Aiden +1 spelling 90 6,878th
Poland boys Aiden 81 birth registrations 321st
England and Wales girls Aiden 10 3,142nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Aiden: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Aiden 353 0.028% 215th
German boys Switzerland Aïden 1 0.000% 1,576th
French boys Switzerland Aiden 94 0.022% 220th
French boys Switzerland Aïden 37 0.009% 320th
Italian boys Switzerland Aiden 14 0.021% 87th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Aiden is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.04% of children were given it – 32 of them.

Aiden: rank by region

In 2025, Aiden was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Aiden 180 32
Wallonia Aiden 461 5

In 2024, Aiden was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Aiden 161 2

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Aiden appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (96th) and Province of Antwerp (139th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Aiden by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 75 191st

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Aiden among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands boys Aiden 1,649 2,248
Finland boys Aiden 84 118
the Netherlands girls Aiden 48 72
Finland girls Aiden 6 12

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Aiden lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 702 men called Aiden were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Palencia Aiden 7 0.089 697
Palmas, Las Aiden 43 0.074 1,149
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Aiden 26 0.049 1,624
Araba/Álava Aiden 8 0.048 1,218
Alicante/Alacant Aiden 46 0.046 1,412
Burgos Aiden 8 0.044 1,127

Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Aiden against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.