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I've met alot of babies and toddlers named Aidan. I feel like it's going to be something like a male version of Olivia, very popular. You can tell because parents have entered the stage where it's such a common name that they've started spelling it differently to make their child more 'unique'. I've seen Aidyn, Aiden, Ayden, ect. Your son probably won't be the only one in his class.

I would consider Aidan a unique spelling variation of Aiden. Aidan is only #59 (7,628 babies in the US) on the Social Security baby name list of 2008 to Aiden's #15(15,411 babies in the US). I will agree that it is extremely popular though. Ayden is #91 (5,010 babies), Aden is #254 (1,368 babies), Adan is #299 (1,101 babies), Aydan is #567 (451 babies), Aydin is #627 (387 babies), and Aidyn is #699 (332 babies). Those were all the spellings I could think of that showed up. If you add them together that's 30,688 babies. The #1 name of Jacob was only given to 22,272 babies. Of course, no alternate spellings are added together on the SSA list so this is probably the case with multiple names on both the girl's and boy's side. This is the only one I've checked though because I saw that Aiden, Aidan, and Ayden were all in the top 100.

Personal experiences with the name Aidan: | Edit

I fell for the name Aidan when I saw "Desperately Seeking Susan" starring Aidan Quinn, back in the 80's.
I saw 'Stakeout' and fell for the name, too!

I named my son after Aidan Quinn too...love the name....love him!

Nicknames for Aidan: | Edit

Aday

Meanings and history of the name Aidan: | Edit

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Famous real-life people named Aidan: | Edit

Actor Aidan Quinn
Author Aidan Chambers

Aidan in song, story & screen: | Edit

Aidan Shaw, played by John Corbett, on 'Sex in the City'.