Slayden
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- SLAY-den
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Slayden is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
Where does Slayden come from?
Modern: invented name with the -den ending, perhaps from the surname Slayden
Is Slayden a girl's or a boy's name?
Slayden is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Slayden in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Slayden, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the boys named Slayden in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Slayden in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,655 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,714 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,429 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,580 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,388 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,899 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
Names like Slayden
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Brayden, Brecken, Braylen, Rayden, Aiden, Raiden, Finnegan, Declan, Finn, Ronan, Deacon
Names related to Slayden
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Slayden: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/slayden, updated 20 October 2026.