Aidan
Aidan is ranked 312th among boys in 2024 (1,092 births). Its best rank was 39th, in 2003.
- Rank in 2024
- #312down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0920.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 200310,067 births
- Best rank
- #39in 2003
- Since 1936
- 120,089people given the name
The story in the numbers
117,370 boys have been named Aidan in the United States since 1936, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 10,067 births — 0.51% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 187 → 312).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 65%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,719 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Aidan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 22 | |
| 1960s | 71 | |
| 1970s | 174 | |
| 1980s | 465 | |
| 1990s | 8,783 | |
| 2000s | 76,511 | |
| 2010s | 25,438 | |
| 2020s | 5,901 |
In 2003, its biggest year
Aidan was the 39th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Aidan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jadonpeak 2006
- Braedenpeak 2005
- Kadinpeak 2004
- Jadanpeak 2005
- Omarionpeak 2005
- Imanolpeak 2006
- Braedonpeak 2006
- Jadenpeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.