Ayden
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #257 for boys in 2025, 1,343 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 6,234 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 10 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 89,180since 1990
Ayden 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 | #5,554 | 22 | #257 | 1,343 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #213 | 1,684 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 | #190 | 1,912 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #171 | 2,198 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | #143 | 2,642 |
| 2020 | #3,915 | 36 | #122 | 3,025 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #114 | 3,367 |
| 2018 | #3,346 | 47 | #104 | 3,685 |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 | #99 | 3,964 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 | #92 | 4,506 |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 | #87 | 4,891 |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 | #74 | 5,632 |
| 2013 | #1,953 | 101 | #71 | 6,084 |
| 2012 | #1,782 | 115 | #68 | 6,234 |
| 2011 | #1,524 | 144 | #70 | 6,129 |
| 2010 | #1,402 | 163 | #78 | 5,144 |
| 2009 | #1,358 | 175 | #87 | 4,998 |
| 2008 | #1,211 | 210 | #91 | 5,058 |
| 2007 | #1,370 | 176 | #102 | 4,325 |
| 2006 | #1,488 | 148 | #119 | 3,596 |
| 2005 | #1,389 | 155 | #147 | 2,722 |
| 2004 | #1,546 | 128 | #182 | 2,183 |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 | #201 | 1,830 |
| 2002 | #1,915 | 92 | #321 | 863 |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | #506 | 452 |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 | #667 | 268 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 | #966 | 149 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | #1,080 | 120 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #1,599 | 63 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #2,145 | 39 |
| 1995 | — | #2,346 | 33 | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
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| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ayden! It came in at #8,117, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ayden is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,652 · 1 in 36,221
Best ever in a state: #12 in Mississippi, 2014.
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| California | #1,652 | 7 | 1 in 36,221 |
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See more about Ayden
- 44 spots since 2024 (#213 → #257)
- 135 spots since 2020 (#122 → #257)
- 170 spots since 2015 (#87 → #257)
- Biggest jump: 299 spots in 2000 (#966 → #667)
- Biggest drop: 44 spots in 2025 (#213 → #257)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2012 at #68 (6,234 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2008–2017
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 304 boys born in 2012 were named Ayden (0.33%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,272 boys born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 55.7% of all boys named Ayden (49,636) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 445 | #966 (1999) | #3,469 |
| 2000s | 26,295 | #87 (2009) | #242 |
| 2010s | 49,636 | #68 (2012) | #86 |
| 2020s | 12,804 | #122 (2020) | #183 |
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.
Ayden in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 292,168 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 25.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,567Zuly7
- #10,567Zury7
- #10,567Zyanya7
- #11,807Ayden6
- #11,807Aalayah6
- #11,807Aamna6
- #11,807Aarthi6
- #13,518Aaleeyah5
- #13,518Abbiegail5
- #13,518Abigahil5
Tied with 1,710 names at #11,807; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 48,572 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 79.6% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,115Yonathan40
- #2,115Zacchaeus40
- #2,115Zakkary40
- #2,145Ayden39
- #2,145Abdulrahman39
- #2,145Aldair39
- #2,145Anand39
- #2,183Adil38
- #2,183Alen38
- #2,183Antoni38
Tied with 37 names at #2,145; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.