Aodhan
#6,163 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aodhan has been given to 317 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #6,163 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Aodhan, 2025
1 in 237,000
Aodhan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Aodhan?
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
- #6,163
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aodhan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aodhan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aodhans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aodhan was born before 2009 — so the typical Aodhan is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 317
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (130).
Is Aodhan 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
- +3,809
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,958
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +182
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.08×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.0%
- Peak was 2004 (25)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.5% average annual change
Spellings of Aodhan
Aodhan is not the most common spelling — Aidan is, with 58.2% against Aodhan's 0.16%.
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.
Aodhan around the world
Where Aodhan 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,256in 2025
- Scotland1994–2024#727in 2024
- Northern Ireland1997–2025#72in 2025
- Ireland1977–2025#272in 2025
- France2007–2022#5,679in 2022
- Canada1999–2020#2,570in 2020
- South Australia1981–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Aodhan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aodhan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aodhan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.