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Aaden

#8,906 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Aidan

Aaden has been given to 5,079 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #8,906 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 1,269 recorded.

Babies named Aaden, 2025

1 in 414,000

Aaden over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aaden: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Aidan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aaden means

Aaden is a variant of Aidan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aaden → Aidan. The family’s meaning is “fire”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aidan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,074 boys were recorded with the name Aaden between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,269 in 2009; its best national rank was #271 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,365 in 2020 to #8,906 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #784 in 2015 to #8,906 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Aaden between 2009 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2009; its best national rank was #17,288 in 2009.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aaden?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,906
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aaden sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aaden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aadens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aaden was born before 2010 — so the typical Aaden is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,074
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (2,535).

Is Aaden rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,027
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,541
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,122
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.03×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
0.63%
Peak was 2009 (1,269)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
66.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#271
2009

Spellings of Aaden

Aaden is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 20.7% against Aaden's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aaden is used

Across 2016–2025, Aaden was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 23,942 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 14,286
  2. 2Kansas1 in 14,286
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 16,667
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6California1 in 20,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 20,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aaden around the world

Where Aaden ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2009–2009
    #626
    in 2009
  • Canada
    2005–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1992–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aaden by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,906
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,541
Best rank ever
#271
2009
Peak year
2009
1,269 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,074
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,288
2009
Peak year
2009
5 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aaden

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BodenEldenHadenArdenKaedenJaedenZadenEidenHaidenLindenAadiAudenRaydenRydenPadenJordenAaditKydenMaddenAadilTaydenAldenGoldenAadam

Names with a curve like Aaden

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aaden, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YandelDamarionTalanJamarionBradynDemarionJaidynLandinJaydanAlexavierBraedynLandan

Sibling names for Aaden

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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