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Avidan

Boys' name

Form of Abidan

Avidan has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Avidan, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avidan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Abidan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Avidan means

Avidan is a form of Abidan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Avidan is used in Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.vi.ˈdan/ for Avidan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abidan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 63 boys were recorded with the name Avidan between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,186 in 2016.

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.

How common is Avidan?

Avidan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avidan 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avidan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avidans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avidan was born before 2009 — so the typical Avidan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
63
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Avidan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (11)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,186
2016

Spellings of Avidan

Avidan is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 54.5% against Avidan's 0.01%.

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.

Avidan around the world

Where Avidan 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
    2006–2013
    #3,822
    in 2013
  • France
    1989–2025
    #5,723
    in 2025

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

Avidan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,186
2016
Peak year
2016
11 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
63
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Avidan

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

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Sibling names for Avidan

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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