Aidan

Where Aidan comes from

Name of an Irish saint, Anglicized from Irish Aodhán and Scottish Gaelic Aodhan, diminutives of Aodh (literally "fire", the name of a Celtic sun god).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aidan
  • Irish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1936
    First appearance
    #3,549 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Aidan Quinn born
    American actor
  3. 1968
    Aidan Gillen born
    Irish actor
  4. 2003
    Peak, #39
    10,067 babies named Aidan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #94.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish.
  • A female given name from Irish of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Aidan Gillen · Irish actor, born 1968
  • Aidan Quinn · American actor, born 1959
  • Aidan Turner · Irish actor, born 1983
  • Aidan Gallagher · American actor, born 2003
  • Aidan Cassar · Maltese singer and songwriter, born 1999

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.