Hayden
Hayden is ranked 154th among boys in 2024 (2,337 births). Its best rank was 71st, in 2007.
- Rank in 2024
- #154up 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,3370.14% of boys
- Peak year
- 20066,470 births
- Best rank
- #71in 2007
- Since 1880
- 144,513people given the name
The story in the numbers
111,803 boys have been named Hayden in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 6,470 births — 0.31% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 140 → 154).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 45%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
Hayden is used for both sexes: 23% of its bearers are girls (32,710), most of them born around 2008.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hayden | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 73 | |
| 1900s | 91 | |
| 1910s | 487 | |
| 1920s | 620 | |
| 1930s | 418 | |
| 1940s | 435 | |
| 1950s | 339 | |
| 1960s | 325 | |
| 1970s | 447 | |
| 1980s | 1,008 | |
| 1990s | 16,350 | |
| 2000s | 50,049 | |
| 2010s | 29,901 | |
| 2020s | 11,232 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Hayden was the 73rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Hayden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jakubpeak 2008
- Izakpeak 2008
- Cristoferpeak 2008
- Exavierpeak 2009
- Jayvonpeak 2008
- Yovanipeak 2005
- Pavelpeak 2008
- Tiernanpeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.