Haydn
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning hedged valley; from the place name Haydn.
Babies a year
45
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3684
5 babies
Haydn by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Haydn. In the US, 45 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 104 babies in 2003, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Haydn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Haydn, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
- Camdenenclosed valley2,786 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Haydn
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