Ayden is a distinctive girls' name in United States, ranking #1956 in 2013 with 101 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2008 with 210 births ranking #1212. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 1,583.3%. In 2013, approximately 1 in every 17,370 girls born was named Ayden. STABLE Recent data shows the name is currently stable.
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.