Aydin

Where Aydin comes from

From Turkish Aydın, from Ottoman Turkish آیدین (Aydın) named for Aydin Mehmet Bey, from آیدین (aydın, “light; clarity; shining; bright; enlightened, educated, intelligent”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aydin
  • Turkish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1938
    Aydin Ibrahimov born
    Olympic wrestler
  2. 1940
    Aydin Aghdashloo born
    Iranian painter
  3. 1984
    First appearance
    #5,561 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2008
    Peak, #629
    393 babies named Aydin — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,130.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Turkish.
Namesakes
  • Aydin Ibrahimov · Olympic wrestler, 1938–2021
  • Aydin Aghdashloo · Iranian painter, born 1940
  • Aydin Mirzazade · Azerbaijani politician, born 1957
  • Aydin Aliyev · former Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan, born 1957
  • Aydin Balayev · Azerbaijani historian, 1956–2021

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.