Ayden is a distinctive boys' name in United States, ranking #1600 in 1997 with 63 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2012 with 6,233 births ranking #68. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 61.5%. In 1997, approximately 1 in every 29,922 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.