How Many People Are Named Ayden?
people named Ayden are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 3,765 people in the US has this name
Based on 91,630 babies named Ayden in Social Security records from 1990 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
6,349 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
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 Ayden in English. Counting Ayden and these spellings together, about 489,509 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Ayden, 2.7% were girls and 97.3% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Ayden fell from 15.9% in the 1990s to 1.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ayden alive today is about 12 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 16 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ayden first appears in the records in 1990 and was given most often in 2012, to 6,349 babies. In 2025, 1,365 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1990 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Ayden never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #68, in 2012, and it was in the top 100 for 10 years, 2008 to 2017. In 2025 it ranked #257.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #257 |
| Best rank | #68 (2012) |
| Years in the top 100 | 10 (2008 to 2017) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #82 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ayden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ayden were born in Texas than in any other state: about 10,014 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ayden was given 1.8 times as often in Mississippi, 1.5 times in Hawaii and 1.5 times in Louisiana.
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