Ayden

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ayden: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #288 in 2013, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#288highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#605
1997	#759
1998	#629
1999	#718
2000	#651
2001	#786
2002	#848
2003	#813
2004	#586
2005	#487
2006	#494
2007	#487
2008	#465
2009	#376
2010	#323
2011	#369
2012	#343
2013	#288
2014	#318
2015	#312
2016	#314
2017	#359
2018	#347
2019	#353
2020	#296
2021	#313
2022	#335
2023	#328
2024	#311

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #311 among boys in England and Wales, #535 among boys in Scotland, #582 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #605 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #288 among boys in England and Wales, in 2013 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ayden appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,674 births with the name.

Ayden across 3 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.

Ayden'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
England and Wales · Boys	#605 (1996)	#288 (2013)	#311 (2024)	29 of 29	2,674 (1996–2024)	156 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#698 (2008)	#454 (2021)	#676 (2025)	12 of 18	48 (2008–2025)	7 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#303 (2013)	#303 (2013)	#418 (2019)	3 of 7	12 (2013–2019)	5 (2013)

Ayden by decade in England and Wales · 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 Ayden in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	99	4 of 10	25
2000s	503	10 of 10	50
2010s	1,361	10 of 10	136
2020sbusiest	711	5 of 10	142

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 142 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births rose by 31, from 104 to 135.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ayden appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #288 in England and Wales in 2013.

Ayden'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#311	144	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#328	133	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#335	129	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#313	149	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#296	156	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#353	126	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#347	132	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#359	130	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#314	153	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#312	150	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#318	144	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#288	154	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#343	128	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#369	109	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#323	135	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#376	104	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#465	76	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#487	67	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#494	61	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#487	57	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#586	42	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#813	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#848	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#786	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#651	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#718	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#629	28	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#759	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#605	27	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#303	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#454	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#534	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #288, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 156 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aura · #288, 25y
Eadie · #288, 26y
Elia · #288, 28y
Nataniel · #289, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aura · #288, 25y
Eadie · #288, 26y
Elia · #288, 28y
Dougie · #287, 26y

Ayden was ranked #288 in England and Wales · Boys in 2013. 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.

Ayden and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ayden without appearing here.

Ayden moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #813 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #586 and #1347.
Murray Compare
In 2003 they stood at #813 and #642 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #586 and #1038.
Glenn Compare
In 2002 they stood at #848 and #633 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #813 and #1132.
Markus Compare
In 2020 they stood at #637 and #556 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #454 and #755.

Moved ahead of Ayden

Ollie Compare
In 2000 they stood at #651 and #673 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #786 and #482.
Carter Compare
In 1996 they stood at #605 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #759 and #476.
Finley Compare
In 1996 they stood at #605 and #704 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #759 and #484.
Jude Compare
In 1996 they stood at #605 and #654 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #759 and #505.

Moved the opposite way to Ayden

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ayden

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayden went from #605 to #311 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #288 in England and Wales in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ayden

Ayden at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ayden across 3 official records

Ayden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ayden across 3 official records

Ayden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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