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Hayden
Pronounced /ˈheɪdn̩/
Rank in 2024
#154
Born in 2024
2,337
Peak year
2006 · #73
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:787 in 2024 (#401)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,337 boys were named Hayden, about 1 in every 734.
- It peaked in 2006 with 6,470 babies, ranked #73.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 111,803 boys have been named Hayden since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Hayden per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 2.2Gen Z1997–12
- 1.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,082 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 784 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 682 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 684 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,652 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen Z: 69,021 babies, 2.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 28,787 babies, 1.33 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Originally a place name, from Old English heg (“hay”) + denu (“valley”). Alternatively, from Middle Dutch heiden (“heathen”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, in general use since the 1990s.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈheɪdn̩/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Hayden, CC BY-SA 4.0.