Aayden

Where Aayden comes from

The dictionaries list Aayden as a given name — a male given name from Irish, a new American spelling variant of Aidan — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 2003
    First appearance
    #6,258 among boys, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #1,048
    190 babies named Aayden — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,213.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish, a new American spelling variant of Aidan.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.