Aidan
Featured in baby name books
Aidan is a traditional Irish name meaning “fire,” “fiery,” or “little flame,” a diminutive of Aodh. The monk Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne trained on Iona, then set up a monastery on Lindisfarne, a tidal island, and worked to convert the north of England during the 600s. Aidan went from near obscurity in the 1980s to the U.S. top hundred by 2001, helped by actor Aidan Quinn and Carrie’s boyfriend on Sex and the City. Aidan is also read as “warmth of the home,” and one source adds an Old English meaning, “oaken.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Irish Names for Children, Numerology for Baby Names
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Usage of Aidan in different languages / cultures
The list below was created by gathering names from various sources for different languages, and then matching Aidan against each list of names.
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Note: In some cases it is possible for the check mark to be missing even if Aidan is used in a particular country, as almost no source name list has 100% coverage.
Aidan in official name statistics
United States
In 2025, 1,043 boys were named Aidan, making it the #326 boys' name in the US. Since 1936, 118,431 boys have been named Aidan, with the most (10,067) in 2003. It is most common, relative to births, in Washington, D.C., Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880–2025. Names given to fewer than 5 babies in a year are not listed.
Other countries
Counts are babies born that year, or living people for "all ages" rows, as published by each country's statistics office or population register.
Towns named Aidan
There are 1 towns and villages with Aidan in their name.
| Name | Where | Population | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aidan | Greater Accra, 🇬🇭 Ghana | – | Map |
Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Maps: OpenStreetMap.
Aidan songs
2 songs and musical works on Wikidata have Aidan in their title. The best known:
Song data: Wikidata (CC0), ordered by how widely each song is covered on Wikipedia.
Celebrities named Aidan
Based on celebrities listed on Wikipedia, filtered to only those with the first name Aidan.
Aidan Chippendale
Aidan Coleman
Aidan Moffat
Aidan Nichols
Fictional characters named Aidan
Characters from films and TV series, from Wikidata, ordered by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
Character data: Wikidata (CC0). Images: Wikimedia Commons; click an image for its author and licence.
Aidan as a pet name
FurryName has found 17 dogs named Aidan in public pet registers, making it the #5,352 dog name there. Most of them are registered in New York City (7), Toronto (4), Framingham (1). Aidan as a dog name →
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