How Many People Are Named Aiden?

257,454

people named Aiden are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 1,327 people in the US has this name

Based on 259,912 babies named Aiden in Social Security records from 1970 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#203

⭐ Uncommon

Rank Among Boy Names

#96

See the top 100

Peak Year

2009

16,143 births

Trend

↓

Declining (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: AY-dən
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of AIDAN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Aiden in English. Counting Aiden and these spellings together, about 489,509 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.8%
Male
99.2%

Of the babies given the name Aiden, 0.8% were girls and 99.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1990s: 8.8% of the babies were girls then and 0.5% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Aiden alive today is about 12 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 17 in 2025.

Under 30 256,959
99.8%
30 to 59 495
0.2%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Aiden first appears in the records in 1970 and was given most often in 2009, to 16,143 babies. In 2025, 5,073 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.

Babies given the name each year, 1970 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Aiden reached #9 among boys' names in 2010 to 2011, and was in the top 10 for 3 years, 2010 to 2012. In 2025 it ranked #62.

Boys
Rank in 2025#62
Best rank#9 (2010 to 2011)
Years in the top 103
Years in the top 10023 (2003 to 2025)
Rank in its biggest decade#13 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Aiden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Aiden were born in California than in any other state: about 33,000 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Aiden was given 1.5 times as often in Delaware, 1.5 times in Vermont and 1.4 times in Hawaii.

California 33,000
Texas 25,411
New York 16,614
Florida 15,069
Illinois 9,766
Pennsylvania 9,708
Ohio 9,284
Georgia 8,302
Michigan 7,874
North Carolina 7,528
Virginia 6,825
New Jersey 6,803
Arizona 5,917
Tennessee 5,399
Washington 5,304
Indiana 5,301
Massachusetts 4,960
Missouri 4,654
Maryland 4,461
Colorado 4,165
Wisconsin 4,071
Minnesota 3,788
Kentucky 3,592
Louisiana 3,573
Alabama 3,427
South Carolina 3,310
Oklahoma 2,937
Oregon 2,814
Connecticut 2,688
Utah 2,687
Nevada 2,442
Kansas 2,416
Mississippi 2,351
Arkansas 2,316
Iowa 2,306
New Mexico 1,739
West Virginia 1,487
Nebraska 1,402
Idaho 1,370
New Hampshire 988
Maine 949
Hawaii 937
Rhode Island 833
Delaware 807
North Dakota 679
South Dakota 659
Alaska 653
Montana 625
District of Columbia 600
Vermont 411
Wyoming 373

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