Name Trends

See the popularity of names over time in the USA

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%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 20 0.000005413 6 14 -40%
1989 19 0.000004942 5 14 -47%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 -100%
1991 27 0.000006932 27 -100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 -100%
1993 57 0.000015119 7 50 -75%
1994 102 0.000027438 16 86 -69%
1995 162 0.000044238 22 140 -73%
1996 192 0.000052645 18 174 -81%
1997 296 0.000081641 32 264 -78%
1998 397 0.000107937 30 367 -85%
1999 513 0.000138883 34 479 -87%
2000 937 0.000247897 56 881 -88%
2001 1654 0.00044186 67 1587 -92%
2002 2910 0.000778463 78 2832 -95%
2003 5790 0.001522876 106 5684 -96%
2004 7284 0.00190649 123 7161 -97%
2005 9212 0.002396121 129 9083 -97%
2006 11730 0.00296527 140 11590 -98%
2007 13287 0.00332403 176 13111 -97%
2008 15730 0.004002445 141 15589 -98%
2009 16140 0.004225691 113 16027 -99%
2010 15653 0.004236098 108 15545 -99%
2011 15603 0.004266433 92 15511 -99%
2012 15010 0.004104854 88 14922 -99%
2013 13718 0.003763716 74 13644 -99%
2014 13487 0.003639807 58 13429 -99%
2015 13558 0.003664474 60 13498 -99%
2016 12299 0.00335349 42 12257 -99%
2017 11395 0.003187665 44 11351 -99%
2018 10091 0.002871534 37 10054 -99%
2019 9432 0.002719103 44 9388 -99%
2020 8653 0.002592391 49 8604 -99%
2021 8328 0.002460493 30 8298 -99%
2022 7871 0.002329656 45 7826 -99%
2023 6700 0.002031999 25 6675 -99%