# Aiden (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aiden/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 259,912 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 257,765 / 2,147 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 15,962, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 92 | 2,088 |
| 2012 | 88 | 2,145 |
| 2013 | 74 | 2,439 |
| 2014 | 58 | 2,922 |
| 2015 | 60 | 2,890 |
| 2016 | 42 | 3,657 |
| 2017 | 44 | 3,480 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,919 |
| 2019 | 44 | 3,501 |
| 2020 | 49 | 3,180 |
| 2021 | 30 | 4,507 |
| 2022 | 45 | 3,471 |
| 2023 | 25 | 5,129 |
| 2024 | 25 | 5,153 |
| 2025 | 27 | 4,882 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15,520 | 9 |
| 2012 | 14,924 | 10 |
| 2013 | 13,649 | 12 |
| 2014 | 13,438 | 14 |
| 2015 | 13,506 | 13 |
| 2016 | 12,269 | 16 |
| 2017 | 11,357 | 17 |
| 2018 | 10,062 | 19 |
| 2019 | 9,403 | 20 |
| 2020 | 8,619 | 24 |
| 2021 | 8,313 | 26 |
| 2022 | 7,852 | 29 |
| 2023 | 6,701 | 40 |
| 2024 | 6,262 | 47 |
| 2025 | 5,046 | 62 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,077 | 61 |
| 2012 | 825 | 80 |
| 2013 | 665 | 92 |
| 2014 | 594 | 103 |
| 2015 | 566 | 112 |
| 2016 | 622 | 104 |
| 2017 | 577 | 110 |
| 2018 | 498 | 121 |
| 2019 | 409 | 138 |
| 2020 | 466 | 121 |
| 2021 | 469 | 124 |
| 2022 | 435 | 129 |
| 2023 | 384 | 138 |
| 2024 | 365 | 145 |
| 2025 | 298 | 170 |

## People named Aiden

- Aiden O'Neill, Australian soccer player (born 1998)
- Aiden English, American professional wrestler
- Aiden Shaw, British pornographic actor and model
- Aiden Star, American pornographic performer (b. 1979)
- Aiden O'Brien, English-born Irish professional footballer
- Aiden Curtiss, British-American fashion model
- A. W. Tozer, American missionary (1897–1963)
- Matthieu Hartley, British keyboardist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.