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Aiden vs Aydenn

American parents have registered 259,912 Aidens since 1880, against 717 Aydenns. Aiden is still ahead, with 5,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aiden Aydenn

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 2011, when Aiden had 15,612 and Aydenn had 147.

Side by side

  Aiden Aydenn
Total US births 259,912717
Most in one year 16,143147
Babies in 2025 5,0736
Estimated living today 257,000710
Median age today 1313
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 12th boys1,198th boys
Rank in 2025 62nd10,695th
First recorded 19702004
Girls / boys 2,147 / 257,76513 / 704

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 Aydenn
England and Wales 15,9623
France 3,625 Aïden250

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 Aydenn.