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How popular is “Aidan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Aidan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Aidan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Aidan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Aidan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Aidan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Aidan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Aidan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 -100%
1973 23 0.000007624 7 16 -39%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 -100%
1975 20 0.000006624 20 -100%
1976 25 0.000008239 25 -100%
1977 17 0.000005352 17 -100%
1978 31 0.000009767 31 -100%
1979 27 0.000008115 6 21 -56%
1980 39 0.000011322 11 28 -44%
1981 44 0.000012719 9 35 -59%
1982 37 0.000010547 9 28 -51%
1983 38 0.000010972 10 28 -47%
1984 46 0.000013185 12 34 -48%
1985 67 0.000018772 13 54 -61%
1986 87 0.000024458 16 71 -63%
1987 65 0.000018027 13 52 -60%
1988 75 0.000020297 21 54 -44%
1989 97 0.000025231 16 81 -67%
1990 150 0.000037951 16 134 -79%
1991 184 0.000047237 17 167 -82%
1992 307 0.000079921 38 269 -75%
1993 371 0.000098401 39 332 -79%
1994 552 0.000148481 35 517 -87%
1995 1061 0.00028972 88 973 -83%
1996 1163 0.000318875 70 1093 -88%
1997 1467 0.000404606 85 1382 -88%
1998 1792 0.000487194 89 1703 -90%
1999 2348 0.000635648 135 2213 -89%
2000 3441 0.000910341 145 3296 -92%
2001 4826 0.001289206 194 4632 -92%
2002 7145 0.001911301 191 6954 -95%
2003 10296 0.002707821 229 10067 -96%
2004 10024 0.00262345 200 9824 -96%
2005 9915 0.002578777 156 9759 -97%
2006 10204 0.00257925 169 10035 -97%
2007 8552 0.002139239 127 8425 -97%
2008 7829 0.001991775 121 7708 -97%
2009 5892 0.001542338 81 5811 -97%
2010 4358 0.001179196 49 4309 -98%
2011 3774 0.00103177 53 3721 -97%
2012 3267 0.000893266 42 3225 -97%
2013 2703 0.000741428 28 2675 -98%
2014 2301 0.000620822 21 2280 -98%
2015 2289 0.000618496 24 2265 -98%
2016 2135 0.00058195 20 2115 -98%
2017 1754 0.000490465 20 1734 -98%
2018 1586 0.000451094 15 1571 -98%
2019 1558 0.000448871 15 1543 -98%
2020 1353 0.00040502 25 1328 -96%
2021 1229 0.000362756 21 1208 -97%
2022 1171 0.000346129 11 1160 -98%
2023 1113 0.000336132 1113 -100%
2024 1099 0.000330179 7 1092 -99%

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