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Aiden

#62 in the US in 2025

Where Aiden stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#62boys’ names · US 2025

Aiden was the 62nd most registered boys' name in the United States in 2025, on 5,046 births.

peak 2009 · 16,030188019532025

Its moment was 2009, when 16,030 babies were given it. In 8 of the years between, the name fell under the 5-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#62US rank, 2025 (boys)
5,046US births in 2025
#9its best US rank, in 2010
2009peak year — 16,030 births
257,765US births since 1970
1,626NZ births since 1992
2,826E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Aiden's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Aiden was under the floor in 8 years of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Aiden in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.0409817
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Aiden in the United States, 1880–2025
boysgirls

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 54% as a share of boys' births.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Aiden in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Aiden has been registered 1,626 times since 1992, peaking in 2011 with 106 births. It ranked #83 for boys in 2025 on 49 births.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.0265529
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Aiden in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Aiden in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Aiden was registered 2,826 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2021 with 469 births. It ranked #170 for boys in 2025 on 298 births.

20200.081161
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Aiden in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1970#4,2306
1980below floor<5
1990#3,60716
2000#324881
2010#915,547
2020#248,619

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Aiden most often since 1970. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
California33,133
Texas25,491
New York16,685
Florida15,161
Illinois9,845
Pennsylvania9,769
Ohio9,355
Georgia8,336
Michigan7,922
North Carolina7,548

Questions about Aiden

How popular is the name Aiden?

Aiden ranked #62 for boys in the United States in 2025, on 5,046 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Aiden most popular?

Aiden peaked in 2009, when 16,030 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Aiden rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all boys' births, Aiden has been falling between 2016 and 2025 (-54%).

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 2009, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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