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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#47 · 1 in 216
- Alabama#55 · 1 in 253
- South Carolina#70 · 1 in 286
- New Jersey#88 · 1 in 364
- Hawaii#91 · 1 in 314
Best ever in a state: #12 in Mississippi, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #47 | 56 | 1 in 216 |
| Alabama | #55 | 86 | 1 in 253 |
| South Carolina | #70 | 70 | 1 in 286 |
| New Jersey | #88 | 108 | 1 in 364 |
| Hawaii | #91 | 11 | 1 in 314 |
| Louisiana | #91 | 61 | 1 in 354 |
| Florida | #95 | 225 | 1 in 401 |
| Georgia | #96 | 129 | 1 in 390 |
| North Carolina | #98 | 128 | 1 in 382 |
| Tennessee | #99 | 86 | 1 in 396 |
| Arkansas | #101 | 34 | 1 in 375 |
| Nevada | #101 | 33 | 1 in 360 |
| Connecticut | #103 | 34 | 1 in 386 |
| Texas | #105 | 352 | 1 in 481 |
| New Mexico | #108 | 18 | 1 in 404 |
| California | #115 | 381 | 1 in 498 |
| New York | #115 | 175 | 1 in 501 |
| Arizona | #117 | 68 | 1 in 470 |
| Rhode Island | #122 | 9 | 1 in 375 |
| Massachusetts | #124 | 54 | 1 in 497 |
| Maryland | #126 | 51 | 1 in 491 |
| District of Columbia | #127 | 9 | 1 in 388 |
| Oklahoma | #131 | 35 | 1 in 507 |
| Illinois | #140 | 95 | 1 in 575 |
| Virginia | #140 | 70 | 1 in 552 |
| Missouri | #153 | 53 | 1 in 538 |
| Washington | #154 | 56 | 1 in 592 |
| Wisconsin | #159 | 40 | 1 in 599 |
| Ohio | #160 | 88 | 1 in 619 |
| Pennsylvania | #167 | 78 | 1 in 692 |
| Colorado | #181 | 37 | 1 in 678 |
| Indiana | #182 | 50 | 1 in 649 |
| Michigan | #182 | 58 | 1 in 736 |
| Kansas | #187 | 20 | 1 in 686 |
| West Virginia | #188 | 11 | 1 in 633 |
| Iowa | #190 | 20 | 1 in 679 |
| Kentucky | #190 | 28 | 1 in 701 |
| Delaware | #200 | 5 | 1 in 619 |
| Nebraska | #200 | 13 | 1 in 675 |
| Minnesota | #214 | 29 | 1 in 862 |
| South Dakota | #220 | 5 | 1 in 667 |
| Idaho | #273 | 8 | 1 in 968 |
| Oregon | #280 | 14 | 1 in 1,106 |
| Utah | #304 | 17 | 1 in 1,134 |
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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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 44,904 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 77.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,841Zianna37
- #3,841Zo37
- #3,841Zyanna37
- #3,915Ayden36
- #3,915Aayra36
- #3,915Adia36
- #3,915Aina36
- #4,005Aaira35
- #4,005Abbygail35
- #4,005Adali35
Tied with 89 names at #3,915; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 571 of them was named Ayden, which outranked 99.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.