Aidan

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Aidan and Aiden are anglicised versions of the Irish male given name Aodhán. The Irish language female equivalent is Aodhnait.

Etymology and spelling

The name is derived from the name Aodhán, which is a pet form of Aodh. The personal name Aodh means "fiery" and/or "bringer of fire" and was the name of a Celtic sun god (see Aed).

Formerly common only in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the name and its variants have become popular in England, the United States, Canada, and Australia. In the 2010s, Aiden rose to the 13th most popular name in the United States as the given name of 129,433 boys, while Aidan ranked 156th as the given name of 25,399 boys. In the 2000s, Aiden was 54th most popular name in the United States as the given name of 83,527 boys while Aidan ranked 55th having been bestowed on 76,493 boys. Other variants are less popular, such as Hayden 87th, Ayden 156th, Aden 333rd, Aydan 808th, and Aydin 960th, according to the United States Social Security Database. "Aidan/Aiden" was the most popular boys' name in Canada in 2007. Aiden was the 38th most popular name given to boys in Canada in 2022.

Its popularity is also reflected in the occurrence of similar-sounding names such as Braden, Caden, Hayden, and Jadon.

Aidan (or any reasonable variant) as a girl's name does not appear in the top one thousand names for girls from the same database, although it has occasionally been used for girls.

Notable people with the given name

Fictional characters

• "Aidan" (The Inside episode), the title of episode 9 of the American television series The Inside
• Aidan Brosnan, fictional character played by Sean Maguire in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Aiden Burn, fictional female character in the American television series CSI: NY
• Aiden Dennison, fictional character in the American television series South of Nowhere
• Aidan Devane, fictional character played by Aiden Turner in the American soap opera All My Children
• Aidan R. Fiero, fictional character played by Zanjoe Marudo in the Filipino drama series Dirty Linen
• Aiden Ford, fictional character in the Canadian television series Stargate Atlantis
• Aidan Foster, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Aiden Lucas, fictional character in the American television series Ghost Whisperer
• Aidan Lynch, fictional character in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• Aiden Pearce, protagonist in the video game Watch Dogs
• Aidan Shaw, fictional character played by John Corbett in the American television series Sex and the City
• Aidan Waite, fictional character in the American Syfy drama/horror Being Human
• Aidan, fictional character in the American television series Supernatural (American TV series)
• Aiden Caldwell, protagonist in the video game Dying Light 2

See also

• St. Aidan's (disambiguation)
• Aiden (band), an American band
• Aiden Lair, historic property in Minerva, NY where Theodore Roosevelt stopped on his way to take the Oath of President at Buffalo (Sept. 14, 1901)
• W.H.L. McCourtie Estate, originally called Aiden Lair, in Somerset Center, Michigan
• Pamela Aidan, pen name of American fiction writer Pamela Mogen (born 1953)
• List of Irish-language given names
• Adin
• Aidin (name)
• Aydin (name)

References

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