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 0.000005323 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 0.000006931 27 -100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 -100%
1993 57 0.000015118 7 50 -75%
1994 102 0.000027437 16 86 -69%
1995 162 0.000044236 22 140 -73%
1996 192 0.000052643 18 174 -81%
1997 296 0.000081638 32 264 -78%
1998 397 0.000107933 30 367 -85%
1999 513 0.000138879 34 479 -87%
2000 937 0.00024789 56 881 -88%
2001 1654 0.000441846 67 1587 -92%
2002 2910 0.000778431 78 2832 -95%
2003 5790 0.001522755 106 5684 -96%
2004 7284 0.001906346 123 7161 -97%
2005 9212 0.002395935 129 9083 -97%
2006 11731 0.002965227 140 11591 -98%
2007 13289 0.003324175 176 13113 -97%
2008 15731 0.004002122 141 15590 -98%
2009 16142 0.004225461 113 16029 -99%
2010 15654 0.004235689 108 15546 -99%
2011 15610 0.004267602 92 15518 -99%
2012 15012 0.004104592 88 14924 -99%
2013 13720 0.003763372 74 13646 -99%
2014 13494 0.003640753 58 13436 -99%
2015 13564 0.003665043 60 13504 -99%
2016 12307 0.003354596 42 12265 -99%
2017 11396 0.003186627 44 11352 -99%
2018 10095 0.002871244 37 10058 -99%
2019 9443 0.002720594 44 9399 -99%
2020 8662 0.002592965 49 8613 -99%
2021 8334 0.002459895 30 8304 -99%
2022 7880 0.002329201 45 7835 -99%
2023 6717 0.002028572 25 6692 -99%
2024 6268 0.00188313 25 6243 -99%