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Aidan vs Aideliz

American parents have registered 121,158 Aidans since 1880, against 114 Aidelizes. Aidan is still ahead, with 1,051 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aidan against Aideliz, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aidan Aideliz

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aidan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1936 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Aidan had 7,830 and Aideliz had 91.

Side by side

  Aidan Aideliz
Total US births 121,158114
Most in one year 10,29691
Babies in 2025 1,051under 5
Estimated living today 119,000110
Median age today 1917
Peak year 20032008
Best rank 39th boys2,184th girls
Rank in 2025 326thunranked
First recorded 19362008
Girls / boys 2,727 / 118,431114 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aidans alive today are over 19; half the Aidelizes are over 17. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aidan and Aideliz.