Aedan
Last seen for girls in 2008 at #12,579 · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 278 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,862since 1988
Aedan over time
Rank among boys' names. Aedan has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,658 | 30 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,559 | 52 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,293 | 36 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,517 | 54 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,623 | 49 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,911 | 77 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,678 | 95 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,506 | 114 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,264 | 144 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,175 | 162 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,132 | 168 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,117 | 171 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,107 | 166 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,115 | 165 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,031 | 184 | |
| 2010 | — | #886 | 235 | |
| 2009 | — | #831 | 261 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #827 | 265 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #774 | 283 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #759 | 278 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #879 | 207 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,191 | 129 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,282 | 110 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,305 | 102 |
| 2001 | — | #1,481 | 82 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,782 | 61 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,995 | 48 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,552 | 33 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,903 | 26 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,280 | 14 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aedan! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aedan is popular in 1993
No state had 5 or more boys named Aedan in 1993, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Aedan
- 1,099 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #3,658)
- 1,747 spots since 2020 (#1,911 → #3,658)
- 2,526 spots since 2015 (#1,132 → #3,658)
- Biggest jump: 312 spots in 2005 (#1,191 → #879)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2011 (#886 → #1,031)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2006 at #759 (278 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2005–2010
- Highest: 1 in 7,334 boys born in 2007 were named Aedan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #759 in 2006, was only 1 in 7,393 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.0% of all boys named Aedan (1,778) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 177 | #1,995 (1999) | #4,427 |
| 2000s | 1,778 | #759 (2006) | #1,111 |
| 2010s | 1,604 | #886 (2010) | #1,201 |
| 2020s | 298 | #1,911 (2020) | #2,760 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aedan in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 122,583 of them was named Aedan, which outranked 62.4% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,661Yitzchak17
- #3,661Zacarias17
- #3,661Zackry17
- #3,819Aedan16
- #3,819Abisai16
- #3,819Alastair16
- #3,819Aleck16
- #4,020Alexandria15
- #4,020Alic15
- #4,020Alvis15
Tied with 200 names at #3,819; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.