Hayden

At the 2020 census, 35,844 Americans bore the surname Hayden — 959th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,339.

By the numbers

People: 35,844
Rank: 959th
How common: 1 in 8,339
Per 100,000: 12.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Originally a place name, from Old English heg (“hay”) + denu (“valley”). Alternatively, from Middle Dutch heiden (“heathen”).

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hayden described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.4%
Black, not Hispanic 13.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hayden

Sterling Hayden (1916–1986)American actor
Nicky Hayden (1981–2017)American motorcycle racer
Diana Hayden (born 1973)Indian actress, television host, beauty queen and the winner of Miss World 1997
Isaac Hayden (born 1995)English association football player
Michael Hayden (born 1945)United States Air Force four-star general
Bill Hayden (1933–2023)former Governor-General of Australia from 1989 to 1996
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829–1887)U.S geologist and surgeon
Carla Hayden (born 1952)American librarian and 14th Librarian of Congress

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

Surnames like Hayden

Also a first name

Hayden has been given to 147,508 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2006. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.