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Aiden

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Aiden is ranked 47th among boys in 2024 (6,243 births). Its best rank was 9th, in 2010–2011.

Rank in 2024
#47down 7 from 2023
Births in 2024
6,2430.36% of boys
Peak year
200916,029 births
Best rank
#9first in 2010
Since 1970
254,749people given the name
Babies named Aiden, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

252,629 boys have been named Aiden in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 16,029 births — 0.81% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 14 → 47).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 51%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100 and 3 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,120 girls have also been given it, 0.83% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Aiden
1970s25
1980s76
1990s1,642
2000s83,551
2010s129,648
2020s37,687

In 2009, its biggest year

Aiden was the 12th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Aiden

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.