girls:
2.7k births since 1973
#3329 (42nd percentile)
boys:
116.3k births since 1936
#274 (94th percentile)
overall:
119k births since 1936
#605 (92nd percentile)
The name Aidan is the #605 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 118,972 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 92.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #274 (94.0% percentile) for all time with 116,260 births since 1936. For girls, it ranks #3,329 (41.7% percentile) for all time with 2,712 births since 1973.
Aidan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (1936 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Aidan is available in 66 out of the 88 years between 1936 and 2023 (66 years for boys and 45 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 Aidan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Aidan reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 95.4% percentile (ranked #40) with 4,648 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 4,791 births per million (ranked 95.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aidan ranks #287 for boys (68.6% percentile) with 607 births per million, which is 12.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aidan reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 24.5% percentile (ranked #685) with 114 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 114 births per million (ranked 24.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aidan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aidan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Aidan is pronounced as AY-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-dahn, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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