Ayden is a distinctive girls' name in United States, ranking #5584 in 2025 with 22 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2008 with 210 births ranking #1212. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 266.7%. In 2025, approximately 1 in every 73,058 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.