Given name & surname
Ajdin
Ajdin is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ajdin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 352
- 352 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,269 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +2%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,269 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 2.4% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 386 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ajdin’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Ajdin was borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish form آیدین.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ajdin
- Ajdin HrusticAustralian soccer player (born 1996)
- Ajdin HasićBosnian footballer (born 2001)
- Ajdin PenavaBosnia and Herzegovina basketball player (born 1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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