Aodan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aodan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

3registrars recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
45years from first to last
#254highest recorded position

Region

Trend unknown

among boys in England and Wales · 2000

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3036

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 19 of the 45 years from 1973 to 2017.

In 2015: #415 among boys in Northern Ireland, #503 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1973–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1973
First recorded at #254 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1973 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1973–2017
Highest recorded position: #254 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1973 (recorded 1973–2017).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #710 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2017.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Aodan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1973, and has registered 80 births with the name.

Aodan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aodan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#254 (1973)	#254 (1973)	#710 (2017)	19 of 45	80 (1973–2017)	8 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#282 (2006)	#282 (2006)	#415 (2015)	4 of 10	14 (2006–2015)	4 (2006)

Aodan by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aodan in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	6	1 of 10	6
1980s	6	2 of 10	3
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000s	27	7 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	35	7 of 10	5

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1973 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #254 in Republic of Ireland in 1973.

Aodan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#503	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#428	8	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#532	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#375	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#319	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Aodan is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Aodan, between 1973 and 2017, in 20 of those 45 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1973–2017	19	#254 in 1973
England and Wales	2000	1	#3036 in 2000
Northern Ireland	2006–2015	4	#282 in 2006

Its high point came 33 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1973) than in Northern Ireland (2006).

No registrar recorded it for 8 years after 1973; it appears again in 1982.

Aodan was ranked #254 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1973. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alfred#254
Darrell#254
Dennis#254
Eanna#254
Alex#268
Ambrose#268
Columba#268
Conall#268

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1973 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #254 in Republic of Ireland in 1973. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Aodan

Aodan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aodan across 2 official records

Aodan by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Popularity data

Where Aodan is officially recorded

Names published alongside Aodan

Aodan at a glance

Aodan across 2 official records

Aodan by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Names published alongside Aodan