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Aiden vs Aidsa

American parents have registered 259,912 Aidens since 1880, against 30 Aidsas. Aiden is still ahead, with 5,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aiden against Aidsa, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aiden Aidsa

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

Aiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Aiden had 13,289 and Aidsa had 30.

Side by side

  Aiden Aidsa
Total US births 259,91230
Most in one year 16,14330
Babies in 2025 5,073under 5
Estimated living today 257,00030
Median age today 1318
Peak year 20092007
Best rank 12th boys4,808th girls
Rank in 2025 62ndunranked
First recorded 19702007
Girls / boys 2,147 / 257,76530 / 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 Aidsas alive today are over 18; half the Aidens are over 13. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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