Aidan
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #326 for boys in 2025, 1,043 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 10,067 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 10 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 118,431since 1936
Aidan over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #326 | 1,043 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #312 | 1,098 |
| 2023 | — | #300 | 1,113 | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #296 | 1,161 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #286 | 1,209 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #261 | 1,331 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #243 | 1,544 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #242 | 1,571 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | #221 | 1,735 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #191 | 2,118 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #185 | 2,265 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #187 | 2,280 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | #146 | 2,676 |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | #116 | 3,225 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #107 | 3,721 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 | #94 | 4,311 |
| 2009 | #2,375 | 81 | #72 | 5,811 |
| 2008 | #1,800 | 121 | #59 | 7,709 |
| 2007 | #1,713 | 127 | #54 | 8,426 |
| 2006 | #1,365 | 169 | #44 | 10,035 |
| 2005 | #1,378 | 156 | #43 | 9,759 |
| 2004 | #1,140 | 200 | #40 | 9,824 |
| 2003 | #1,008 | 229 | #39 | 10,067 |
| 2002 | #1,104 | 191 | #60 | 6,954 |
| 2001 | #1,090 | 194 | #86 | 4,632 |
| 2000 | #1,310 | 145 | #114 | 3,296 |
| 1999 | #1,329 | 135 | #166 | 2,213 |
| 1998 | #1,762 | 89 | #196 | 1,703 |
| 1997 | #1,766 | 85 | #222 | 1,382 |
| 1996 | #1,994 | 70 | #259 | 1,093 |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 | #282 | 973 |
| 1994 | #3,234 | 35 | #440 | 517 |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | #557 | 332 |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 | #630 | 269 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #797 | 167 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #890 | 134 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #1,184 | 81 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | #1,427 | 54 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | #1,400 | 52 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #1,118 | 71 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | #1,304 | 54 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #1,690 | 34 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #1,661 | 35 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #1,965 | 28 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | — | #1,718 | 31 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,999 | 24 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,205 | 20 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,799 | 13 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #2,405 | 16 |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aidan! It came in at #3,549, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1956, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aidan is popular in 1968
No state had 5 or more boys named Aidan in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Aidan
- 14 spots since 2024 (#312 → #326)
- 65 spots since 2020 (#261 → #326)
- 141 spots since 2015 (#185 → #326)
- Biggest jump: 294 spots in 1990 (#1,184 → #890)
- Biggest drop: 41 spots in 2014 (#146 → #187)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 2003 at #39 (10,067 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2001–2010
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 196 boys born in 2003 were named Aidan (0.51%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,638 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 64.6% of all boys named Aidan (76,513) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 21 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,311 |
| 1960s | 71 | #2,415 (1969) | #2,985 |
| 1970s | 172 | #1,718 (1978) | #2,603 |
| 1980s | 465 | #1,118 (1986) | #1,558 |
| 1990s | 8,783 | #166 (1999) | #444 |
| 2000s | 76,513 | #39 (2003) | #61 |
| 2010s | 25,446 | #94 (2010) | #173 |
| 2020s | 6,955 | #261 (2020) | #297 |
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.
Aidan in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
boys
1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 157,998 of them was named Aidan, which outranked 45.7% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,445Yaakov12
- #2,445Yusef12
- #2,445Yvonne12
- #2,576Aidan11
- #2,576Aj11
- #2,576Albin11
- #2,576Aldon11
- #2,735Adolf10
- #2,735Amando10
- #2,735Andrei10
Tied with 158 names at #2,576; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.