Hayden

• English:/ˈheɪdn̩/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hayden, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Brayden
• Caden
• Peyton
• Jaden
• Jordan

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Hayden is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Haydën, Hàydèn

• Danish surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Denmark, United Kingdom, Iceland

  Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

  Also written Håÿdęń

74 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.

Hayden 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, from Haydon (Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire), Haydon Bridge (Northumberland), or Heydon (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk); first attested Thomas de Haiden’ 1200 Pl (Ess)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• habitational name from any of various places called Hayden or Haydon. The three examples of Haydon in Northumberland are named from Old English heg ‘hay’ + denu ‘valley’. Others, for example in Dorset, Hertfordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, get the name from Old English heg ‘hay’ (or perhaps hege ‘hedge’ or (ge)hceg ‘enclosure’) -l- dun ‘hill’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• reduced form of O’Hayden, an Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hEideain and 6 hEidi'n ‘descendant of Eidedn' or ‘descendant of Eidm\ personal names apparently from a diminutive of eideadh ‘clothes’, ‘armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A habitational surname from Old English.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, ) Haydon; Haden [’heidan]: in den USA und AustraHen geläufiger männl.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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.

• Sterling Haydenb. 1916USAmerican actor (1916–1986)
• Bill Haydenb. 1933AUformer Governor-General of Australia from 1989 to 1996
• Nicky Haydenb. 1981USAmerican motorcycle racer (1981-2017)

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).

85 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 44 countries.

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

What does the name Hayden mean, and where does it come from?

Person from one of several English places called Hayden or Haydon, or from Irish Gaelic personal names meaning ‘little armour’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

Which countries have the most people with the surname Hayden?

In the United States, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Hayden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hayden. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Hayden?

In the United States, the national register counted 37,451 people named Hayden in 2010, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.

How common is Hayden compared with other names?

In the United States, Hayden is the 807th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

How do you pronounce Hayden?

In English /ˈheɪdn̩/ (Wiktionary).