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Nayden

#11,593 in 2025Boys' name

Found

Nayden has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #11,593 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Nayden, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nayden: meaning, origin, and history

Found

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nayden means

Nayden means “found”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nayden is used in Bulgarian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 boys were recorded with the name Nayden between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2014; its best national rank was #5,638 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,188 in 2020 to #11,593 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,389 in 2015 to #11,593 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.

How common is Nayden?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,593
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nayden 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nayden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naydens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nayden was born before 2016 — so the typical Nayden is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
199
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.8% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Nayden 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
+322
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,405
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,204
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.5%
Peak was 2014 (16)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,638
2014

Spellings of Nayden

Nayden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 15.0% against Nayden'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.

Where Nayden is used

Across 1910–2025, Nayden was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,069,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Nayden has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nayden around the world

Where Nayden 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2015–2025
    #3,848
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2019
    #2,293
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nayden by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,593
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,405
Best rank ever
#5,638
2014
Peak year
2014
16 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
199
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nayden

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

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Sibling names for Nayden

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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