Ayden is a moderately popular boys' name in England & Wales, ranking #311 in 2024 with 144 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2020 with 156 births ranking #296. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 433.3%. In 2024, approximately 1 in every 1,929 boys born was named Ayden. RISING Recent data shows the name is currently rising.
Ayden is a modern spelling variant of Aidan and carries the same meaning, "little fire". It belongs to the family of contemporary spellings that grew around the success of Aidan and Aiden.
The deeper roots are old Irish, but the Ayden spelling is modern. It rose in step with the broader fashion for Aiden-style names in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.