Ayden is a moderately popular boys' name in United States, ranking #190 in 2023 with 1,909 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2012 with 6,233 births ranking #68. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 4,794.9%. In 2023, approximately 1 in every 895 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.