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Aiden vs Aidyn

American parents have registered 259,912 Aidens since 1880, against 5,063 Aidyns. Aiden is still ahead, with 5,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aiden Aidyn

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 1999, when Aiden had 513 and Aidyn had 17.

Side by side

  Aiden Aidyn
Total US births 259,9125,063
Most in one year 16,143413
Babies in 2025 5,07347
Estimated living today 257,0005,000
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 12th boys642nd boys
Rank in 2025 62nd2,991st
First recorded 19701997
Girls / boys 2,147 / 257,765823 / 4,240

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aiden Aidyn
England and Wales 15,96236
Scotland 4,27726

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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