Aedan
Last seen for girls in 2008 at #12,579 · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 278 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,862since 1988
Aedan over time
Rank among boys' names. Aedan has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,658 | 30 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,559 | 52 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,293 | 36 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,517 | 54 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,623 | 49 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,911 | 77 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,678 | 95 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,506 | 114 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,264 | 144 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,175 | 162 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,132 | 168 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,117 | 171 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,107 | 166 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,115 | 165 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,031 | 184 | |
| 2010 | — | #886 | 235 | |
| 2009 | — | #831 | 261 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #827 | 265 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #774 | 283 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #759 | 278 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #879 | 207 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,191 | 129 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,282 | 110 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,305 | 102 |
| 2001 | — | #1,481 | 82 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,782 | 61 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,995 | 48 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,552 | 33 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,903 | 26 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,280 | 14 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aedan! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aedan
- 1,099 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #3,658)
- 1,747 spots since 2020 (#1,911 → #3,658)
- 2,526 spots since 2015 (#1,132 → #3,658)
- Biggest jump: 312 spots in 2005 (#1,191 → #879)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2011 (#886 → #1,031)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2006 at #759 (278 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2005–2010
- Highest: 1 in 7,334 boys born in 2007 were named Aedan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #759 in 2006, was only 1 in 7,393 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.0% of all boys named Aedan (1,778) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 177 | #1,995 (1999) | #4,427 |
| 2000s | 1,778 | #759 (2006) | #1,111 |
| 2010s | 1,604 | #886 (2010) | #1,201 |
| 2020s | 298 | #1,911 (2020) | #2,760 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aedan in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 369,568 of them was named Aedan, which outranked 14.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 9,649 of them was named Aedan, which outranked 93.4% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #875Nikhil209
- #877Gordon208
- #877Teagan208
- #879Aedan207
- #879Bronson207
- #879Franco207
- #879Jamel207
- #884Abdullah206
- #884Andreas206
- #886Carmine205
Tied with 4 names at #879; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.