Aidan is of Irish and Gaelic origin, it comes from the Old Irish name ‘Aodhán’, which means ‘fiery’ or ‘fiery one’. The name Aodhán is a variant of the name Aodh, which is the Irish and Scottish Gaelic form of the name Hugh.
Aidan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Aidan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Aidan ranks 196. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 11 were named Aidan. In the entire USA, approximately 114,859 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Aidan. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Aidan is of Irish and Gaelic origin, it comes from the Old Irish name ‘Aodhán’, which means ‘fiery’ or ‘fiery one’. The name Aodhán is a variant of the name Aodh, which is the Irish and Scottish Gaelic form of the name Hugh.
What does 'fiery' mean? The word 'fiery' is used to describe something that is very hot, intense, or passionate. It can also refer to something that is easily ignited or set on fire, or someone who is easily excited or angered, with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Aidan occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Aidan is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Aidan is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 113,595 men and boys of all generations bear the name Aidan – that is one in 1,469. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Aidan, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 3,795 men for their name to get Aidan as an answer once.
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 Aidan 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.
If your name is Aidan 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aidan, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Aidan sounds like this:
