Aden

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Arabic: “saddle”; Gulf of Aden place name

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Aden is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • CACanada
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
291 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Arabic: “saddle”; Gulf of Aden place name.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aden counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Aden is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—19KAden291
DE Germany——Aden96
CA Canada—5Aden98
TR Türkiye—2.2K—13
SE Sweden—1.2K—24
FR France—1K—3
NO Norway—832—18

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aden is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Argentina

    Languages: French, Spanish

    Also written Adén, Ãden, Adèn, Ädên, Âdëñ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group
  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Ådén, Adén

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Åden, Ådén, Adén

  • Swedish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Aaden, Aadén, Ådén

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Aden is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, seaport, gulf, Yemen

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Ade/Adi, Kurzform zu german. Namen mit Adal- „edel“. 637 Bearer.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Patronym im schwachen Genitiv zu Rufname Aden/Adam; 637 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • Fiamma, fuoco

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • Fiamma

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, b. 1908Aden Meinel, b. 1922Hawa Aden Mohamed, b. 1949Aden Ridgeway, b. 1962Holger Aden, b. 1965Aden Young, b. 1971Aden Hashi Farah, b. 1976Amal Aden, b. 1983Halima Aden, b. 1997Aden Strong, b. 2004

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 85 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Aden
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202019K#1,600
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.9K#5,686
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.7K#7,110
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.8K#10,591
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20242.2K#30
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#870
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241K#744
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—832#1,439
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020753#1,600
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025416—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025224—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—188#5,032

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Aden have the most bearers?
Aden is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled aden.
What does the name Aden mean, and where does it come from?
Arabic: “saddle”; Gulf of Aden place name. Recorded by African Names.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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