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 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wyoming#63 · 1 in 165
- New Hampshire#83 · 1 in 297
- Iowa#98 · 1 in 324
- Alaska#110 · 1 in 328
- Vermont#115 · 1 in 377
Best ever in a state: #12 in Mississippi, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #63 | 11 | 1 in 165 |
| New Hampshire | #83 | 19 | 1 in 297 |
| Iowa | #98 | 50 | 1 in 324 |
| Alaska | #110 | 10 | 1 in 328 |
| Vermont | #115 | 6 | 1 in 377 |
| North Dakota | #116 | 9 | 1 in 372 |
| Maine | #119 | 11 | 1 in 510 |
| Hawaii | #120 | 12 | 1 in 418 |
| Oklahoma | #126 | 46 | 1 in 450 |
| Nebraska | #128 | 24 | 1 in 439 |
| Wisconsin | #128 | 54 | 1 in 545 |
| Ohio | #129 | 110 | 1 in 606 |
| Indiana | #130 | 73 | 1 in 531 |
| North Carolina | #130 | 93 | 1 in 548 |
| Oregon | #134 | 37 | 1 in 523 |
| Virginia | #134 | 70 | 1 in 610 |
| West Virginia | #134 | 16 | 1 in 557 |
| Kansas | #136 | 32 | 1 in 518 |
| Nevada | #139 | 27 | 1 in 512 |
| Minnesota | #140 | 45 | 1 in 665 |
| Idaho | #143 | 18 | 1 in 482 |
| Washington | #143 | 58 | 1 in 595 |
| South Dakota | #144 | 8 | 1 in 529 |
| Missouri | #149 | 51 | 1 in 665 |
| Utah | #150 | 39 | 1 in 564 |
| Arkansas | #152 | 26 | 1 in 579 |
| Rhode Island | #158 | 7 | 1 in 720 |
| Colorado | #164 | 45 | 1 in 658 |
| Michigan | #164 | 71 | 1 in 790 |
| Massachusetts | #165 | 35 | 1 in 972 |
| Montana | #165 | 7 | 1 in 577 |
| Pennsylvania | #165 | 74 | 1 in 857 |
| Tennessee | #169 | 41 | 1 in 876 |
| Kentucky | #175 | 27 | 1 in 813 |
| Illinois | #180 | 89 | 1 in 880 |
| Arizona | #182 | 56 | 1 in 739 |
| Florida | #188 | 103 | 1 in 928 |
| Maryland | #188 | 28 | 1 in 1,018 |
| Louisiana | #197 | 28 | 1 in 910 |
| South Carolina | #197 | 22 | 1 in 952 |
| Texas | #201 | 196 | 1 in 914 |
| New Mexico | #208 | 12 | 1 in 907 |
| Mississippi | #216 | 15 | 1 in 996 |
| Connecticut | #221 | 12 | 1 in 1,449 |
| New York | #221 | 82 | 1 in 1,338 |
| Alabama | #232 | 19 | 1 in 1,238 |
| Georgia | #243 | 47 | 1 in 1,241 |
| New Jersey | #245 | 30 | 1 in 1,583 |
| California | #250 | 177 | 1 in 1,424 |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 14,346 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 91.8% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,542Misty129
- #1,542Saylor129
- #1,542Yadhira129
- #1,546Ayden128
- #1,546Azariah128
- #1,546Cordelia128
- #1,546Farrah128
- #1,554Abygail127
- #1,554Carsyn127
- #1,554Charli127
Tied with 7 names at #1,546; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 909 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 98.6% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.