Aiken
#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · boys
- 1921 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 359since 1920
Aiken over time
Rank among boys' names. Aiken has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
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| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
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| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aiken! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aiken is popular in 2014
No state had 5 or more boys named Aiken in 2014, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Aiken
- 2,700 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #7,194)
- 2,496 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #7,194)
- 1,448 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #7,194)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1921 at #3,869 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1922, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 72,959 boys born in 2012 were named Aiken (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,869 in 1921, was only 1 in 183,575 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 53.2% of all boys named Aiken (191) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #3,869 (1921) | #4,078 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #9,912 (1999) | #9,912 |
| 2000s | 81 | #5,800 (2009) | #7,577 |
| 2010s | 191 | #3,894 (2012) | #4,962 |
| 2020s | 71 | #4,698 (2020) | #7,271 |
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.
Aiken in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 87,312 of them was named Aiken, which outranked 68.8% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,263Zarion23
- #4,263Zaven23
- #4,263Zidane23
- #4,392Aiken22
- #4,392Aleem22
- #4,392Alyan22
- #4,392Amaar22
- #4,538Aalijah21
- #4,538Aarya21
- #4,538Ahnaf21
Tied with 145 names at #4,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.