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
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 10,067 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 10 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 118,431since 1936
Aidan over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
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 | #10,917 | 8 | #326 | 1,043 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #312 | 1,098 |
| 2023 | — | #300 | 1,113 | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #296 | 1,161 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #286 | 1,209 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #261 | 1,331 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #243 | 1,544 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #242 | 1,571 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | #221 | 1,735 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #191 | 2,118 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #185 | 2,265 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #187 | 2,280 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | #146 | 2,676 |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | #116 | 3,225 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #107 | 3,721 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 | #94 | 4,311 |
| 2009 | #2,375 | 81 | #72 | 5,811 |
| 2008 | #1,800 | 121 | #59 | 7,709 |
| 2007 | #1,713 | 127 | #54 | 8,426 |
| 2006 | #1,365 | 169 | #44 | 10,035 |
| 2005 | #1,378 | 156 | #43 | 9,759 |
| 2004 | #1,140 | 200 | #40 | 9,824 |
| 2003 | #1,008 | 229 | #39 | 10,067 |
| 2002 | #1,104 | 191 | #60 | 6,954 |
| 2001 | #1,090 | 194 | #86 | 4,632 |
| 2000 | #1,310 | 145 | #114 | 3,296 |
| 1999 | #1,329 | 135 | #166 | 2,213 |
| 1998 | #1,762 | 89 | #196 | 1,703 |
| 1997 | #1,766 | 85 | #222 | 1,382 |
| 1996 | #1,994 | 70 | #259 | 1,093 |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 | #282 | 973 |
| 1994 | #3,234 | 35 | #440 | 517 |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | #557 | 332 |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 | #630 | 269 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #797 | 167 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #890 | 134 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #1,184 | 81 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | #1,427 | 54 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | #1,400 | 52 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #1,118 | 71 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | #1,304 | 54 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #1,690 | 34 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #1,661 | 35 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #1,965 | 28 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | — | #1,718 | 31 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,999 | 24 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,205 | 20 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,799 | 13 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #2,405 | 16 |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 2003 at #39 (10,067 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2001–2010
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 196 boys born in 2003 were named Aidan (0.51%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,638 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 64.6% of all boys named Aidan (76,513) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 21 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,311 |
| 1960s | 71 | #2,415 (1969) | #2,985 |
| 1970s | 172 | #1,718 (1978) | #2,603 |
| 1980s | 465 | #1,118 (1986) | #1,558 |
| 1990s | 8,783 | #166 (1999) | #444 |
| 2000s | 76,513 | #39 (2003) | #61 |
| 2010s | 25,446 | #94 (2010) | #173 |
| 2020s | 6,955 | #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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 113,405 of them was named Aidan, which outranked 59.2% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,100Zoraya16
- #7,100Zuzu16
- #7,100Zyanya16
- #7,409Aidan15
- #7,409Aaravi15
- #7,409Aaron15
- #7,409Abiha15
- #7,762Aamirah14
- #7,762Aaruhi14
- #7,762Abbygale14
Tied with 352 names at #7,409; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 1,156 of them was named Aidan, which outranked 98.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.