Name Trends

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How popular is “Aiden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Aiden” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Aiden” 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 “Aiden” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Aiden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Aiden” 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
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 19 0.000005324 19 -100%
1987 7 0.000001942 7 -100%
1988 21 0.000005684 6 15 -43%
1989 19 0.000004942 5 14 -47%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 -100%
1991 27 0.000006932 27 -100%
1992 39 0.000010154 39 -100%
1993 57 0.000015119 7 50 -75%
1994 102 0.000027439 16 86 -69%
1995 162 0.000044239 22 140 -73%
1996 192 0.000052647 18 174 -81%
1997 296 0.000081643 32 264 -78%
1998 397 0.00010794 30 367 -85%
1999 513 0.000138888 34 479 -87%
2000 937 0.000247909 56 881 -88%
2001 1654 0.00044188 67 1587 -92%
2002 2910 0.000778534 78 2832 -95%
2003 5790 0.001522979 106 5684 -96%
2004 7284 0.001906627 123 7161 -97%
2005 9212 0.002396358 129 9083 -97%
2006 11728 0.002965123 140 11588 -98%
2007 13282 0.003323285 175 13107 -97%
2008 15727 0.004002364 141 15586 -98%
2009 16137 0.004225648 113 16024 -99%
2010 15652 0.004236651 108 15544 -99%
2011 15599 0.004266324 92 15507 -99%
2012 15004 0.004104261 88 14916 -99%
2013 13716 0.003764355 74 13642 -99%
2014 13481 0.003639396 58 13423 -99%
2015 13552 0.003664299 60 13492 -99%
2016 12296 0.003354192 42 12254 -99%
2017 11389 0.003187733 44 11345 -99%
2018 10079 0.002870079 37 10042 -99%
2019 9425 0.002719413 44 9381 -99%
2020 8646 0.002593296 49 8597 -99%
2021 8318 0.002461156 29 8289 -99%
2022 7844 0.002333207 45 7799 -99%