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The first name 
Aedan

Aedan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Aedan is a well-known but special name!

Aedan is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1286 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,285 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Aedan.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Aedan

Aedan -
keeping with the times

Aedan is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Aedan cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #702 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2006. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Aedan, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Aedan seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Aedan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Aedan in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

54 babies were named Aedan in 2022 - that's 1 in 2,989,370 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Aedan ranked 2,227 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Aedan -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Aedan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to men and boys named Aedan. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Aedan living in one state or another. If your name is Aedan and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Colorado, which has the most people named Aedan relative to the population, you still have to ask 21,901 men and boys their names before you hear Aedan as an answer just once.

Aedan has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.

With five letters, the name Aedan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.

Other names with 
A, e, d, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Aedan – A, e, d, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Adena or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Aedan

If your name is Aedan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Aedan

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aedan, you can simply say:

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Nut

This is how the name Aedan is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Aedan in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Aedan

Aedan

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Aedan

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Aedan is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
E
D
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Aedan

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
E
D
A
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aedan sounds like this: