Aberdeen comes from the ModernAmerican / InventedVariant tradition, meaning Scotland's third largest city..
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How popular is Aberdeen?
2017peak year
Today, Aberdeen is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #7411), with only about 16 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 2017, 26 babies were given the name (ranked #5046 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 2010s. Aberdeen's usage has held roughly steady recently. In all, around 259 babies have been registered as Aberdeen since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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