Aedan
Aedan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 759th, in 2006.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 520.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2007283 births
- Best rank
- #759in 2006
- Since 1988
- 3,831people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,831 boys have been named Aedan in the United States since 1988, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 283 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2000s alone account for 46%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2007, its biggest year
Aedan was the 774th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Aedan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alexavierpeak 2006
- Kadynpeak 2009
- Lamarionpeak 2005
- Landenpeak 2008
- Adenpeak 2006
- Jaydanpeak 2009
- Aydanpeak 2008
- Kaedenpeak 2008
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.