girls:
640 births since 1987
#5076 (11th percentile)
boys:
21.4k births since 1880
#783 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22k births since 1880
#1716 (78th percentile)
The name Aden is the #1,716 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,024 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #783 (82.9% percentile) for all time with 21,384 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,076 (11.2% percentile) for all time with 640 births since 1987.
Aden has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1987 for girls). Birth data for Aden is available in 113 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (113 years for boys and 35 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.8% of babies named Aden were boys.
For boys, Aden reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 72.6% percentile (ranked #249) with 639 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 648 births per million (ranked 72.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aden ranks #633 for boys (30.5% percentile) with 158 births per million, which is 24.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aden reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #950) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aden ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 46.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aden".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Aden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.0% confident that Aden is pronounced as AY-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-duhn, at 24.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 D AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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