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Ajdin

#8,265 in 2025Boys' name

Light, through آیدین

Ajdin has been given to 352 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #8,265 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Ajdin, 2025

1 in 368,000

Ajdin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ajdin: meaning, origin, and history

Light, through آیدین

Turkish

What Ajdin means

Ajdin belongs to the name family reached through Ajdin → آیدین. Its meaning is “light”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ajdin is used in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Turkish.

Ajdin comes through Ottoman Turkish آیدین.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include آیدین.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 352 boys were recorded with the name Ajdin between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,037 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,641 in 2020 to #8,265 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,179 in 2015 to #8,265 in 2025.

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 Ajdin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,265
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ajdin 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ajdin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ajdins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ajdin was born before 2011 — so the typical Ajdin is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Ajdin 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
+1,660
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,376
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,086
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.0%
Peak was 2009 (25)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,037
2009

Spellings of Ajdin

Ajdin is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 31.2% against Ajdin's 0.04%.

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 Ajdin is used

Across 1910–2025, Ajdin was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,057,073 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

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. Ajdin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ajdin around the world

Where Ajdin 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.

  • France
    2006–2021
    #5,411
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ajdin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,265
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,376
Best rank ever
#4,037
2009
Peak year
2009
25 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
352
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Ajdin

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

BodinCadinEldinAldinAidinHaydinRadinZaydinRaydinArdinAladdinAedinYordinCardinEdinKaydinHardinKamdinKaedinJaidinBradinJaedinKaidinCamdin

Sibling names for Ajdin

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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