Wayden
#8,864 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wayden has been given to 209 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #8,864 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Wayden, 2025
1 in 368,000
Wayden 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Wayden?
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
- #8,864
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wayden 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wayden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Waydens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wayden was born before 2018 — so the typical Wayden is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 209
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.8% of all recorded uses (102).
Is Wayden 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
- −3,810
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,268
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +641
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.0%
- Peak was 2024 (20)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Wayden
Wayden is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 14.9% against Wayden'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.
Wayden around the world
Where Wayden 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.
- France2015–2025#4,505in 2025
- Canada2018–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
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.
Wayden by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Wayden
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wayden
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.