Given name & surname
Aladdin
“one who is noble in his faith”
Aladdin is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is noble in his faith.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is noble in his faith.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aladdin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 270
- 270 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #8,941 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +25%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,941 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 25.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 24 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 394 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.
Aladdin’s family of names
Aladdin has a related form in Aladin. Aladdin has a related form in Aladdyn. Aladdin has a related form in Aladyn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aladdin
- Aladdin AllahverdiyevAzerbaijani scientist and professor (born 1947)
- Aladdin MalikovAzerbaijani researcher of philosophyborn 1982
- Aladdin ShamilovAzerbaijani scientist1943–2024
Characters named Aladdin: Aladdin (Disney's Aladdin series).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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