# Ayden (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ayden/  
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 | 91,630 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 89,180 / 2,450 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,793, 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 | 144 | 1,526 |
| 2012 | 115 | 1,782 |
| 2013 | 101 | 1,957 |
| 2014 | 80 | 2,308 |
| 2015 | 73 | 2,476 |
| 2016 | 57 | 2,939 |
| 2017 | 48 | 3,312 |
| 2018 | 47 | 3,354 |
| 2019 | 34 | 4,178 |
| 2020 | 36 | 3,931 |
| 2021 | 51 | 3,164 |
| 2022 | 37 | 3,978 |
| 2023 | 23 | 5,409 |
| 2024 | 32 | 4,399 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,584 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6,129 | 70 |
| 2012 | 6,234 | 68 |
| 2013 | 6,084 | 71 |
| 2014 | 5,632 | 74 |
| 2015 | 4,891 | 87 |
| 2016 | 4,506 | 92 |
| 2017 | 3,964 | 99 |
| 2018 | 3,685 | 104 |
| 2019 | 3,367 | 114 |
| 2020 | 3,025 | 122 |
| 2021 | 2,642 | 143 |
| 2022 | 2,198 | 171 |
| 2023 | 1,912 | 190 |
| 2024 | 1,684 | 213 |
| 2025 | 1,343 | 257 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 109 | 369 |
| 2012 | 128 | 343 |
| 2013 | 154 | 288 |
| 2014 | 144 | 318 |
| 2015 | 150 | 312 |
| 2016 | 153 | 314 |
| 2017 | 130 | 359 |
| 2018 | 132 | 347 |
| 2019 | 126 | 353 |
| 2020 | 156 | 296 |
| 2021 | 149 | 313 |
| 2022 | 129 | 335 |
| 2023 | 133 | 328 |
| 2024 | 144 | 311 |
| 2025 | 119 | 352 |

## People named Ayden

- Ayden Heaven, English association football player

## 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.