Aidan

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #326 for boys in 2025, 1,043 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time

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Peak · boys
2003 · 10,067 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
10 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · boys
118,431
since 1936

Aidan over time

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Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201936peak #39, 2003boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,9178#3261,043
2024#12,1617#3121,098
2023#3001,113
2022#9,05611#2961,161
2021#5,74821#2861,209
2020#5,00325#2611,331
2019#7,34215#2431,544
2018#7,40915#2421,571
2017#6,04420#2211,735
2016#6,18620#1912,118
2015#5,45824#1852,265
2014#5,99321#1872,280
2013#4,88728#1462,676
2012#3,71142#1163,225
2011#3,13253#1073,721
2010#3,30649#944,311
2009#2,37581#725,811
2008#1,800121#597,709
2007#1,713127#548,426
2006#1,365169#4410,035
2005#1,378156#439,759
2004#1,140200#409,824
2003#1,008229#3910,067
2002#1,104191#606,954
2001#1,090194#864,632
2000#1,310145#1143,296
1999#1,329135#1662,213
1998#1,76289#1961,703
1997#1,76685#2221,382
1996#1,99470#2591,093
1995#1,66988#282973
1994#3,23435#440517
1993#2,99039#557332
1992#3,03638#630269
1991#5,39917#797167
1990#5,54916#890134
1989#5,28616#1,18481
1988#4,17221#1,42754
1987#5,61313#1,40052
1986#4,72416#1,11871
1985#5,34813#1,30454
1984#5,53912#1,69034
1983#6,21210#1,90528
1982#6,8889#1,92928
1981#6,8049#1,66135
1980#5,91211#1,96528
1979#9,0106#2,31021
1978#1,71831
1977#2,55617
1976#1,99924
1975#2,20520
1974#2,79913
1973#6,6667#2,40516
1972#3,15210
1971#4,3756
1970#2,50914
1969#2,41513
1968#2,57611
1967#2,7609
1966#2,46511
1965#3,2447
1964#4,0395
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1959#2,8219
1958#3,5596
1957#3,5526
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First appearance
1936

The first year at least five boys were named Aidan! It came in at #3,549, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1936–1956, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Aidan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 14 spots since 2024 (#312#326)
  • 65 spots since 2020 (#261#326)
  • 141 spots since 2015 (#185#326)
  • Biggest jump: 294 spots in 1990 (#1,184#890)
  • Biggest drop: 41 spots in 2014 (#146#187)
Rise & fade · boys
67 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1936
  • Peaked 2003 at #39 (10,067 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2001–2010
  • Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 196
  • Highest: 1 in 196 boys born in 2003 were named Aidan (0.51%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,638 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 64.6% of all boys named Aidan (76,513) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#3,549 (1936)#3,549
1940s0
1950s21#2,821 (1959)#3,311
1960s71#2,415 (1969)#2,985
1970s172#1,718 (1978)#2,603
1980s465#1,118 (1986)#1,558
1990s8,783#166 (1999)#444
2000s76,513#39 (2003)#61
2010s25,446#94 (2010)#173
2020s6,955#261 (2020)#297

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.

Aidan in 1936

boys
#3,549
5 births · 1 in 207,441 boys

Top boys' names in 1936

  1. #1Robert58,500
  2. #2James54,694
  3. #3John47,683
  4. #4William39,398
  5. #5Richard33,494
  6. #6Charles29,101
  7. #7Donald28,639
  8. #8Thomas18,342
  9. #9George18,197
  10. #10David17,476
  11. #3,549Aidan5
More about 1936

boys

1,037,205 boys got a published name in 1936; 1 in 207,441 of them was named Aidan, which outranked 12.1% of the 4,037 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aidan
  1. #3,147Zachariah6
  2. #3,147Zebbie6
  3. #3,147Zeke6
  4. #3,549Aidan5
  5. #3,549Abdon5
  6. #3,549Adger5
  7. #3,549Adlai5

Tied with 488 names at #3,549; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1935
Risers
  1. 802Errol#1,708#906
  2. 644Sergio#1,584#940
  3. 601Brice#1,494#893
  4. 537Windell#1,390#853
  5. 529Kim#1,390#861
Fallers
  1. 1,082Stafford#980#2,062
  2. 889Darwyn#750#1,639
  3. 461Hunter#956#1,417
  4. 399Orvil#844#1,243
  5. 370Rosendo#956#1,326

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1936