Ayden is a distinctive boys' name in United States, ranking #2148 in 1996 with 39 recorded births. This places Ayden in the top 20% of ranked US boys' names for the year. Its actual usage is classified as Rare. The name reached its all-time peak in 2012 with 6,233 births ranking #68. In 1996, approximately 1 in every 48,570 boys born was named Ayden. FALLING Recent data shows the name is currently falling.
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.