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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#30 · 1 in 167
- Louisiana#51 · 1 in 246
- Georgia#65 · 1 in 273
- South Carolina#66 · 1 in 264
- Hawaii#71 · 1 in 256
Best ever in a state: #12 in Mississippi, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #30 | 78 | 1 in 167 |
| Louisiana | #51 | 93 | 1 in 246 |
| Georgia | #65 | 191 | 1 in 273 |
| South Carolina | #66 | 79 | 1 in 264 |
| Hawaii | #71 | 15 | 1 in 256 |
| Nevada | #76 | 42 | 1 in 313 |
| Alabama | #78 | 75 | 1 in 302 |
| Tennessee | #80 | 104 | 1 in 341 |
| North Carolina | #84 | 145 | 1 in 346 |
| Florida | #86 | 263 | 1 in 364 |
| Delaware | #90 | 12 | 1 in 268 |
| Maryland | #92 | 75 | 1 in 352 |
| Texas | #93 | 415 | 1 in 421 |
| Connecticut | #98 | 40 | 1 in 347 |
| New York | #98 | 228 | 1 in 420 |
| New Jersey | #103 | 94 | 1 in 427 |
| Illinois | #107 | 131 | 1 in 456 |
| Oklahoma | #108 | 46 | 1 in 409 |
| California | #111 | 449 | 1 in 460 |
| Michigan | #115 | 105 | 1 in 437 |
| Massachusetts | #117 | 59 | 1 in 479 |
| Arizona | #120 | 73 | 1 in 468 |
| Pennsylvania | #120 | 115 | 1 in 498 |
| South Dakota | #120 | 11 | 1 in 345 |
| Rhode Island | #121 | 9 | 1 in 391 |
| Virginia | #127 | 80 | 1 in 509 |
| Arkansas | #132 | 27 | 1 in 501 |
| New Mexico | #134 | 17 | 1 in 450 |
| West Virginia | #134 | 17 | 1 in 444 |
| Ohio | #136 | 112 | 1 in 512 |
| Missouri | #140 | 59 | 1 in 514 |
| Wisconsin | #145 | 49 | 1 in 525 |
| Colorado | #148 | 45 | 1 in 573 |
| Kentucky | #148 | 38 | 1 in 551 |
| Iowa | #149 | 28 | 1 in 513 |
| Kansas | #151 | 27 | 1 in 538 |
| Nebraska | #161 | 17 | 1 in 554 |
| Indiana | #162 | 58 | 1 in 586 |
| District of Columbia | #173 | 7 | 1 in 564 |
| Maine | #175 | 7 | 1 in 605 |
| Minnesota | #177 | 39 | 1 in 684 |
| Idaho | #184 | 13 | 1 in 598 |
| Washington | #199 | 45 | 1 in 767 |
| Montana | #229 | 5 | 1 in 722 |
| Oregon | #249 | 17 | 1 in 977 |
| Utah | #267 | 19 | 1 in 1,026 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 36,193 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 81.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,293Westlynn48
- #3,293Yazmine48
- #3,293Zeynep48
- #3,346Ayden47
- #3,346Abbygail47
- #3,346Aina47
- #3,346Amairani47
- #3,396Abigael46
- #3,396Alaiah46
- #3,396Alanni46
Tied with 49 names at #3,346; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 493 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 99.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.