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Aiden name meaning

“fire (from Aodh, 'fire')”

Letters
5
Syllables
2
First letter
A
Category
Western Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 2010s: 6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s6%

Western Names: A

Aiden is a boy's name of Irish origin, a spelling of Aidan, formed from Aodh meaning 'fire'.

What does Aiden mean?

Fire (from Aodh, 'fire')

In Malay: api (daripada Aodh, 'api')

Sources (2)

About the name Aiden

Aiden is a spelling of Aidan, the English form of the Irish name Aodhán. Aodhán is a derivative of Aodh, which comes from the Old Irish word 'áed' (fire). According to JPN, the name peaked in the 2010s with 798 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
SyllablesAi-den
First letterWestern Names starting with A

Aiden in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
Boy: 798 · 6%
People registered with Aiden as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Aodh · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Aidan · behindthename.com · meaning

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