girls:
43 births since 2002
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1988
#2016 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1988
#4446 (43rd percentile)
The name Aedan is the #4,446 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,821 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 42.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,016 (56.0% percentile) for all time with 3,778 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 2002.
Aedan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 2002 for girls). Birth data for Aedan is available in 34 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (34 years for boys and 7 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 Aedan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Aedan reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 30.4% percentile (ranked #609) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 128 births per million (ranked 30.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aedan ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 14.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aedan reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #961) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aedan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Aedan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.2% confident that Aedan is pronounced as AY-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-duhn, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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