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Raiden

#432 in 2025Boys' name

Thunder + lightning

Raiden has been given to 13,141 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #432 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 935 recorded.

Babies named Raiden, 2025

1 in 4,490

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raiden: meaning, origin, and history

Thunder + lightning

coinages

What Raiden means

Raiden means “thunder + lightning”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Possible a modern variant of Rayden, or a coinage rhyming with Braiden, Jaiden, etc.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Raiden (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Raiden is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Raiden is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rayden.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,681 boys were recorded with the name Raiden between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 935 in 2022; its best national rank was #353 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #403 in 2020 to #432 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #471 in 2015 to #432 in 2025.

In the United States, 460 girls were recorded with the name Raiden between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,694 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,894 in 2020 to #6,497 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,264 in 2015 to #6,497 in 2025.

How common is Raiden?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,490
739 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,310
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#432
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,111 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raiden 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 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 3,111 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raiden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raidens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raiden was born before 2017 — so the typical Raiden is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,681
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (6,168).

Is Raiden 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
+16
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−29
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+39
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.0%
Peak was 2022 (935)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#353
2022

Spellings of Raiden

Raiden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 14.0% against Raiden's 0.69%.

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 Raiden is used

Across 2016–2025, Raiden was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 467 boys, against 1 in 1,991 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 5,263).

19214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 467
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 877
  3. 3Alaska1 in 885
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 893
  5. 5Nevada1 in 1,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 1,099
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 1,220
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 1,250

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.

Geographically, Raiden is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 47% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Raiden around the world

Where Raiden 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
    2004–2025
    #934
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2025
    #2,476
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #524
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Raiden by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#432
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 29
Best rank ever
#353
2022
Peak year
2022
935 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,681
Count in 2025
739

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,497
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,603
Best rank ever
#3,694
2016
Peak year
2016
42 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
460
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Raiden

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

KamdenZaidenMaddenJordenCaidenRaydenLandenBraedenJaedenKaedenZaydenHoldenJaidenRainerHaidenAldenLindenArdenCaydenBraidenBradenKaidenTaydenBrenden

Names with a curve like Raiden

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Raiden, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ZayneOdinEdenFinneganRoninSullivanKysonMemphisRhysKianJasiahKasen

Sibling names for Raiden

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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