Aden

Where Aden comes from

Aden hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1908
    Aden Abdullah Osman Daar born
    Somali politician
  3. 1971
    Aden Young born
    Australian actor
  4. 2006
    Peak, #244
    1,408 babies named Aden — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #440.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Aden Abdullah Osman Daar · Somali politician, 1908–2007
  • Aden Young · Australian actor, born 1971
  • Aden Meinel · American astronomer, 1922–2011
  • Aden Hashi Farah · Somalian politician, 1976–2008
  • Aden Mohammed · Somali banker and entrepreneur, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.