Ayden

Where Ayden comes from

The dictionaries list Ayden 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. 1990
    First appearance
    #8,117 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2000
    Ayden Owens-Delerme born
    Puerto Rican decathlete
  3. 2006
    Ayden Heaven born
    English association football player
  4. 2012
    Peak, #68
    6,234 babies named Ayden — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #122.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish, a new American spelling variant of Aidan.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Ayden Heaven · English association football player, born 2006
  • Ayden Owens-Delerme · Puerto Rican decathlete, born 2000

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.