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Aayden

#6,141 in 2025Boys' name

Fire, through Aidan

Aayden has been given to 1,720 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #6,141 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 190 recorded.

Babies named Aayden, 2025

1 in 237,000

Aayden over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aayden: meaning, origin, and history

Fire, through Aidan

Irish

What Aayden means

Aayden belongs to the name family reached through Aayden → Aidan. Its meaning is “fire”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aayden is used in English and German. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aidan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,715 boys were recorded with the name Aayden between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 190 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,048 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,727 in 2020 to #6,141 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,089 in 2015 to #6,141 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Aayden between 2011 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2011; its best national rank was #16,766 in 2011.

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 Aayden?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,141
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aayden 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aayden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aaydens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aayden was born before 2014 — so the typical Aayden is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
77.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,715
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 77.0% of all recorded uses (1,320).

Is Aayden 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
+3,756
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,414
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,052
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.08×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.4%
Peak was 2014 (190)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
55.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,048
2014

Spellings of Aayden

Aayden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 15.1% against Aayden's 0.10%.

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 Aayden is used

Across 2016–2025, Aayden was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 42,775 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Arizona1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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.

Aayden around the world

Where Aayden 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
    2012–2020
    #3,334
    in 2020
  • France
    2019–2024
    #6,660
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2013–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aayden by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,141
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,414
Best rank ever
#1,048
2014
Peak year
2014
190 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,715
Count in 2025
14

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,766
2011
Peak year
2011
5 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aayden

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

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Sibling names for Aayden

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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