Aidan (name)
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Aidan or Aiden are the primary anglicisation
s of the Irish given name Aodhán and the Scottish Gaelic given name Aodhàn.
. It can be used as a masculine or feminine given name
. The personal name Aodh means "fire" and was the name of a Celtic sun god (see Aed
).
Formerly common only in Ireland
and Scotland
, the name and its variants have become popular within the rest of the United Kingdom
, the United States
, and Canada
. Aidan has been the 57th most popular name in the United States since the start of the year 2000, bestowed on over 62,000 boys, while Aiden ranking 66th, has been used on over 51,000 boys. Other variants are a bit less popular, such as Hayden 88th, Ayden 189th, Aden 333rd, Aydan 808th, and Aydin 960th, according to the United States Social Security Database. "Aidan/Aiden" was the most popular boys' name in Canada in 2007.
The spellings Aydan
, Aydin, or Aden
are all more common with Turkish
or Arabic
origins, and have a different pronunciation.
Its popularity is also reflected in the occurrence of similar-sounding names such as Braden
, Caden
, Hayden
, and Jayden
.
Aidan (or any reasonable variant) as a girl's name does not appear in the top one thousand names for girls from the same database, although it has occasionally been used for girls.
Some sources suggest that the feminine equivalent of Aidan is Eithne, which has the same meaning.
Anglicisation
Anglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to...
s of the Irish given name Aodhán and the Scottish Gaelic given name Aodhàn.
Etymology and spelling
The name is derived from the name Aodhán, which is a pet form of AodhÁed (given name)
Aodh or Áed is an Irish word of Indo-European origin, equivalent to fire in English. Aodh , and its many variants is used today in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages as a given name for both sexes , and in even more variants as a family name...
. It can be used as a masculine or feminine given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. The personal name Aodh means "fire" and was the name of a Celtic sun god (see Aed
Aed (god)
Aed, or Aodh, is the prince of the Daoine Sidhe and a god of the underworld in Irish mythology. He is known from inscriptions as the eldest son of Lir, High King of the Tuatha de Dannan, and Aobh, a daughter of Bodb Dearg....
).
Formerly common only in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
and Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, the name and its variants have become popular within the rest of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Aidan has been the 57th most popular name in the United States since the start of the year 2000, bestowed on over 62,000 boys, while Aiden ranking 66th, has been used on over 51,000 boys. Other variants are a bit less popular, such as Hayden 88th, Ayden 189th, Aden 333rd, Aydan 808th, and Aydin 960th, according to the United States Social Security Database. "Aidan/Aiden" was the most popular boys' name in Canada in 2007.
The spellings Aydan
Aydan
Aydan is a Turkish female given name and also appears as a surname.*Aydan Şener, Turkish film and television actress*Efe Aydan, Turkish former professional basketball player...
, Aydin, or Aden
Aden (disambiguation)
-Given name:* Osman Aden Abdulle, Somali physician and geneticist* Qamar Aden Ali, Somali politician* Aden Robleh Awaleh, Djiboutian politician* Aden Charmakeh, Djiboutian footballer* Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the first president of Somalia...
are all more common with Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
or Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
origins, and have a different pronunciation.
Its popularity is also reflected in the occurrence of similar-sounding names such as Braden
Braden (given name)
Braden is a name popular in the United States and Canada in recent years. It is derived from the Irish surname Ó Bradáin, meaning descendant of Bradán...
, Caden
Caden (given name)
Caden is a given name popular in the United States and Canada in recent years. It is used for both boys and girls, but is currently most popular for boys...
, Hayden
Hayden (given name)
Hayden is a given name in the English language. The name is variant of the given name Haydn, which is derived from the surname Haydn in honour of composer Josef Haydn . The surname Haydn originated as a respelling of the nickname Heiden, meaning "heathen"...
, and Jayden
Jayden
Jayden is a unisex given name. The name is of recent origin, possibly an elaborate form of Jay, combined with the name Hayden. The name has become popular throughout the English-speaking world in recent years...
.
Aidan (or any reasonable variant) as a girl's name does not appear in the top one thousand names for girls from the same database, although it has occasionally been used for girls.
Some sources suggest that the feminine equivalent of Aidan is Eithne, which has the same meaning.
Middle Ages
- Áedán mac GabráinÁedán mac GabráinÁedán mac Gabráin was a king of Dál Riata from circa 574 until his death, perhaps on 17 April 609. The kingdom of Dál Riata was situated in modern Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and parts of County Antrim, Ireland...
(ruled c. 574-609), King of Dál Riata, sometimes anglicised as Aidan of Dalriada - Aeddan ap BlegywrydAeddan ap BlegywrydAeddan ap Blegywryd was a Prince of Gwynedd in medieval Wales.After the death of Cynan ap Hywel in 1005, the throne of Gwynedd fell to Aeddan ap Blegywryd, who was apparently out of the direct line of succession. It is not known whether or not Aeddan seized the throne by force, but his lack of...
(died 1018), Welsh prince of Gwynedd - Saint Máedóc of Ferns (550–632), also known as Áedan
- Saint Aidan of LindisfarneAidan of LindisfarneKnown as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria , was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England. A Christian missionary, he is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. Aidan is the Anglicised form of the original Old...
(died 651), Irish missionary
Modern times
- Aidan BakerAidan BakerAidan Baker is a musician from Toronto, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and with his groups Nadja, ARC, and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry....
(born 1974), Canadian musician - Aidan Banks, English guitarist
- Aidan BrowneAidan BrowneAidan Browne is a Northern Irish television presenter and actor.-Broadcasting career:Browne has been a freelance continuity announcer and newsreader at UTV since 1993...
, Northern Irish television presenter - Aiden ByrneAiden ByrneAiden Byrne is head chef and owner of The Collingwood, a bar and restaurant in West Kirby. and of The Church Green in Lymm, Cheshire. He also runs the British Grill in the Craxton Wood hotel near Chester....
, English chef - Aidan ChambersAidan ChambersAidan Chambers is an award-winning British writer of novels for children and young adults.- Life and work :Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine...
(born 1934), English author - Aidan CooneyAidan CooneyAidan Cooney is an Irish television and radio presenter. He is a presenter of Ireland AM on TV3. He also works doing the weekday mid-morning show on Q102 from 11am-2pm.-Ireland AM:...
, Irish television presenter - Aidan CrawleyAidan CrawleyAidan Merivale Crawley, MBE was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician...
(1908–1993), British politician - Aidan J. DavidAidan J. DavidAidan J. David is a British actor, best known for playing James Arnold in the BBC school drama Grange Hill. He appeared in the show from 1994 to 2001....
(born 1981), English actor - Aidan DavisAidan DavisAidan Davis is a child street dancer from Birmingham, England who is best known for reaching the final of the third series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent. He finished fifth place overall...
(born 1997), English dancer - Aidan DelgadoAidan DelgadoAidan Delgado is a lawyer and former soldier in the 320th Military Police Company of the United States Army, best known for having become a conscientious objector in April 2003 during his deployment to Iraq and for disclosing information about Abu Ghraib.-Army career:Delgado states that he joined...
(born 1981), American soldier and anti-war activist - Aidan DevineAidan DevineAidan Devine is a Canadian film actor. He was born in England and immigrated with his family to Canada at the age of 15. He studied at Dawson College's Dome Theatre in Montreal, Quebec and began his acting career in Montreal. He would later relocate to Toronto. His 1993 breakout role came in...
, Canadian film actor - Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), English cardinal
- Aidan GillenAidan GillenAidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor and television presenter. He is known in Ireland for his role in Love/Hate, in the UK for his role in Queer as Folk and in the US for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role in Game of Thrones as...
(born 1968), Irish actor - Aidan GillettAidan GillettAidan Gillett is an Australian actor, who is best known for his roles as Daniel McManus in the BBC-commissioned soap opera Out of the Blue and Robert Cruze in Home and Away.-Early life:...
(born 1986), Australian actor - Aidan GirtAidan GirtAidan Girt is a Canadian drummer for the Montreal-based post-rock collectives, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Exhaust. He is also a solo electronic artist under the moniker 1-Speed Bike and occasionally Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike....
, Canadian drummer - Aidan GouldAidan GouldAidan Gould is an American child actor. He is the brother of Nolan Gould.-Career:His career began as early as 2001; at age four he was considered for We Were Soldiers, but instead made his debut in a television commercial. In 2008, he starred in the movie Julia opposite Tilda Swinton...
(born 1996), American actor - Aiden Grimshaw, English musician
- Aiden GuerraAiden GuerraAiden Guerra is an Australian rugby league player in the National Rugby League for the Sydney Roosters. Guerra was previously under contract at the Melbourne Storm before heading to the Roosters...
, Australian rugby league player - Aidan HartleyAidan HartleyAidan Hartley is a Kenyan journalist.Hartley was born in Nairobi in 1965. From age 7-12 he attended Ravenswood School, a boarding school near Tiverton in Devon, England...
(born 1965), British author and journalist - Aiden J. HarveyAiden J. HarveyAiden J Harvey is an angular English north country comedian and impersonator who got his break on the mid 1970s ATV talent show New Faces. He was subsequently in demand on TV comedy and variety shows throughout the following decade.He is probably most famous as a member of the Copy Cats team, a...
(born 1944), English comedian - Aidan HeaveyAidan HeaveyAidan Joseph Heavey is the founder of Tullow Oil, one of Europe's largest oil businesses.-Career:From Castlerea, Co. Roscommon and educated at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare and at University College, Dublin, Aidan Heavey trained with R. J. Kidney & Co. from 1974 to 1978 when he...
(born 1953), Irish businessman - Aidan HigginsAidan Higgins-Life:His upbringing in a landed Catholic family in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, provided material for his first experimental novel, Langrishe, Go Down...
(born 1927), Irish writer - Aidan HughesAidan HughesAidan Hughes is a commercial artist. He was born in 1956 in Merseyside, England, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter.In the 1980s, Hughes published a pulp-style magazine called BRUTE! which earned him notoriety...
(born 1956), English artist - Aidan KellyAidan KellyAidan Kelly is an American academic, poet and influential figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca. Having developed his own branch of the faith, the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, during the 1960s, he was also initiated into other traditions, including Gardnerianism and Feri, in...
(born 1940), American Wiccan - John Aidan LiddellJohn Aidan LiddellJohn Aidan Liddell VC, MC was an English pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
(1888–1915), English pilot - Aiden MacCarthyAiden MacCarthyAiden MacCarthy, GM was an Irish doctor of the Royal Air Force who showed great courage, resourcefulness and humanity during his capture by the Japanese during the Second World War.- Early life :...
(1914-1992), Irish doctor - Aidan Carl MatthewsAidan Carl MatthewsAidan Mathews, sometimes Aidan Carl Mathews, is an Irish poet, dramatist and author born in Dublin.-Life:He was educated at Gonzaga College, Dublin and University College Dublin and holds an MA from Trinity College Dublin. He works as a drama producer in RTÉ Radio. Mathews has taught English at...
(born 1956), Irish writer - Aidan McAnespieAidan McAnespieAidan McAnespie was an Irish Catholic who was killed in contested circumstances by a bullet from a heavy machine-gun held by a soldier at Aughnacloy border checkpoint in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland during the Troubles....
(1965–1988), Irish victim of the Troubles - Aidan McArdleAidan McArdleAidan McArdle is an Irish actor.McArdle was born in Dublin. He studied for an Arts degree at University College Dublin before going on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England....
(born 1970), Irish actor - Aidan McLindonAidan McLindonAidan Patrick McLindon is an Australian politician. He was first elected for the seat of Beaudesert to the Queensland State Parliament for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2009 Queensland Election...
(born 1980), Australian politician - Aidan MitchellAidan MitchellAidan Daley Mitchell is an American film and TV actor.Mitchell spent his first few years in Massachusetts, but when he was 3½ years his family relocated to his father's birthplace of Galway, Ireland where he spent the next 7 years...
(born 1993), American actor - Aidan MoffatAidan MoffatAidan John Moffat is a Scottish vocalist and musician, best known for his work with Malcolm Middleton in Arab Strap.-Early life:...
(born 1973), Scottish musician - Aidan NicholsAidan NicholsJohn Christopher "Aidan" Nichols OP is an academic and Catholic priest.Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the Reformation...
(born 1948), English academic and priest - Aidan PowerAidan PowerAidan Power is an Irish television presenter. He appears from time to time on Raidió Teilifís Éireann .-Career:Power was educated at St. Mac Dara's community college and then Ballyfermot Senior College where he obtained a postgraduate diploma in broadcasting and journalism in 1998...
(born 1979), Irish television personality - Aidan QuinnAidan Quinn-Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...
(born 1959), American actor - Aiden Wilson TozerAiden Wilson TozerAiden Wilson Tozer was an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees.- Biography :...
(1897-1963), American preacher - Aidan TurnerAidan TurnerAidan Turner is an Irish actor. He is best known for playing Dante Gabriel Rossetti on Desperate Romantics, Ruairí McGowan on The Clinic, and John Mitchell on the supernatural drama series Being Human. He will be playing Kíli in the upcoming two-part fantasy film The Hobbit.-Early life:Aidan...
(born 1983), Irish actor - Aiden TurnerAiden TurnerAiden Turner is a British actor known for his role as Aidan Devane on All My Children , which he played from 6 June 2002 until he left AMC on 21 December 2009.-Early years:...
(born 1977), English actor - Aidan WalshAidan WalshAidan Walsh is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football and hurling with his local club Kanturk and has been a member of the Cork senior inter-county football team since 2009....
(born 1990), Irish hurling and Gaelic football player - Aidan White (journalist) (born 1951), British journalist
- Aidan ZammitAidan Zammit-Biography:He has worked as a composer, musician and singer with several artists, including Mike Francis , Niccolò Fabi, Andrea Bocelli, Nicola Piovani, Vincenzo Cerami, Bungaro, Lorenzo Feliciati, Simone Cristicchi, Antonello Venditti, Marco Mengoni, Angelo Branduardi and Vocintransito...
(born 1965), Maltese musician
Sports
- Aiden BlizzardAiden BlizzardAiden Craig Blizzard is an Australian cricketer who is a member of the Southern Redbacks side. An aggressive left-handed batsman, his hit 89 from 38 balls on his Twenty20 debut for the Victorian Bushrangers on New Years Day 2007. His innings included 8 sixes. In 2004 he toured India and Sri Lanka...
(born 1984), Australian cricketer - Aiden ButterworthAiden ButterworthAiden Butterworth is a retired English football player. He played for Leeds United and Doncaster Rovers. After ending his football career in 1984 he went to work for Adidas.Recently married Jim's cousin.-References:*...
(born 1961), English football player - Aiden CairnsAiden CairnsAiden Cairns was a rugby league player in the Australian competition, the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.A three-quarter , Cairns, played in 16 matches for the Eastern Suburbs and 23 for the North Sydney club. In the 1938 season Cairns was a try scorer in the Eastern Suburbs...
, Australian rugby player - Aidan ColemanAidan ColemanAidan Coleman is an Irish horse racing jockey.Born in Innishannon, Cork, Ireland, Coleman rode in the 2008 Grand National at the age of 19, his first time riding in that steeplechase. He was one of the youngest riders ever to start the Grand National...
(born 1988), Irish jockey - Aidan Collins (English footballer) (born 1986)
- Aidan DalyAidan DalyAidan Craig Daly is a New Zealand basketballer. He is currently playing with the Hawke's Bay Hawks in the NZL NBL and previously played with the Manawatu Jets, Wellington Saints and Christchurch Cougars. He is a 1.85 m tall point guard....
(born 1978), New Zealand basketball player - Aidan DavisonAidan DavisonAidan John Davison is an English-born Northern Irish former footballer and football coach who is Head Coach of American side FC JAX Destroyers.As a player he played as a goalkeeper from 1987 until 2008...
(born 1968), British footballer - Aidan DownesAidan DownesAidan Downes is an Irish professional footballer who is currently playing for Bohemians in the League of Ireland Premier Division.- Youth Career and Everton :Aidan joined Everton’s Academy in 2005 from Tolka Rovers in his native Ireland....
(born 1988), Irish footballer - Aidan FennellyAidan FennellyAidan Fennelly is a Gaelic football player from Laois in Ireland.He plays for the Portlaoise club. He usually plays at right corner back for Laois and in 2005 was nominated for a prestigious All-Star award...
, Irish gaelic footballer - Aidan FogartyAidan FogartyAidan Fogarty is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Emeralds and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team.-Club:...
(born 1982), Irish hurling player - Aidan Fogarty (hurler) (born 1958), Irish hurling player
- Aidan KearneyAidan KearneyAidan Kearney is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Tallow and with the Waterford senior inter-county team.-Club:...
(born 1984), Irish hurling player - Aidan KirkAidan KirkAidan Kirk is a rugby league player who last played in the National Rugby League for the New Zealand Warriors.-Early years:...
(born 1986), New Zealand rugby player - Aidan Lynch (footballer)Aidan Lynch (footballer)Aidan Lynch is a former Irish football player.He began his career in the League of Ireland in 1995 when he made four appearances for college side, UCD, in the Premier Division...
(born 1977), Irish footballer - Aidan McCaffreyAidan McCaffreyAidan McCaffery is an English former professional footballer and football club manager. As player, he made 370 appearances in the Football League, playing as a central defender for Newcastle United, Derby County, Bristol Rovers, Bristol City, Torquay United, Exeter City, Hartlepool United and...
(born 1957), English footballer - Aiden McGeadyAiden McGeadyAiden McGeady is a Scottish-born Irish footballer who currently plays as a winger for Russian club Spartak Moscow. Although born and brought up in Scotland, McGeady plays internationally for the Republic of Ireland, a country he qualifies for through his grandparents...
(born 1986), Irish footballer - Aidan MurphyAidan MurphyAidan Murphy is a former English professional football player. He is now a youth soccer coach in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.-Player:...
(born 1967), English footballer and coach - Aidan NewhouseAidan NewhouseAidan Robert Newhouse was an English former footballer. He holds the record for being the youngest player to appear for Chester City in a Football League match...
(born 1972), English footballer - Aiden O'BrienAiden O'BrienAiden Anthony O'Brien is an English-born Irish footballer playing as a striker for Millwall in Football League Championship.-Career:...
, Irish footballer - Aidan O'BrienAidan O'BrienAidan Patrick O'Brien is an Irish horse racing trainer. Since 1996, he has been the private trainer at Ballydoyle Stables near Cashel in County Tipperary for John Magnier and his Coolmore Stud associates....
(born 1969), Irish horse-racing trainer - Aidan O'KaneAidan O'KaneAidan O'Kane is an footballer, currently playing for Glentoran.While at Cliftonville, he played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. From his time at York he played against Leeds, Boro, Sheff Wed and Sunderland in friendly games and played in both the FA Cup and League Cup...
(born 1979), Northern Irish footballer - Aidan O'Keefe (footballer), Irish football player
- Aidan O'MahonyAidan O'MahonyAidan O'Mahony is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for the Kerry senior football team. O'Mahony is a member of An Garda Síochána.O'Mahony played for Kerry's U21 team in 2000 and 2001....
(born 1982), Irish gaelic footballer - Aiden PalmerAiden PalmerAiden Witting Palmer is an English footballer currently playing for Chelmsford City.-Career:After struggling to keep a first-team place at Orient, Palmer went on loan to Dagenham & Redbridge on 27 January 2009, and stayed for a month. He made his debut on the same day in the Daggers' 1–1 draw at...
(born 1987), English football player - Aidan PriceAidan PriceAidan Price is an Irish footballer who currently plays for Bohemians in the League of Ireland Premier Division....
(born 1981), Irish footballer - Aiden TolmanAiden TolmanAiden Tolman is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NRL. He previously played for the Melbourne Storm...
(born 1988), Australian rugby player - Aidan White (footballer)Aidan White (footballer)Aidan 'Aidy' Peter White is an English-born Irish footballer who plays for Leeds United. He made his debut for the club aged 16...
(born 1991), English footballer
Fictional characters
- "Aidan" (The Inside episode), the title of episode 8 of the television series The Inside
- Aidan, a character in The Secret of Kells
- Aiden, fictional character in Blood and Chocolate (novel)Blood and Chocolate (novel)Blood and Chocolate is a 1997 romantic supernatural werewolf novel for young adult readers by Annette Curtis Klause. It is set in the contemporary United States.-The Loups-garoux:...
by Annette Curtis Klause - Aidan, fictional character in the computer game Guild Wars (series)
- Aidan Bok, fictional character in the Star Wars novel Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of a Jedi by John Whitman
- Aidan BrosnanAidan BrosnanAidan Brosnan is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Sean Maguire between January and December 1993. A popular character, Aidan was involved in storylines about homelessness, drug-abuse and suicide...
, fictional character played by Sean Maguire in the television series EastEnders - Aiden BurnAiden BurnAiden Burn is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: NY portrayed by Vanessa Ferlito.-Overview:Aiden is a Brooklyn native who has the ability to adapt to new situations very quickly and has a love and drive for her job similar to that of Sara Sidle on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.She...
, fictional female character in the television series CSI: NY - Aiden "Danny" Coughlin, fictional character in the novel The Given DayThe Given DayThe Given Day is a novel by Dennis Lehane published in September 2008; it is about the early twentieth-century period and set in Boston, Massachusetts, where its actions include the 1919 police strike, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the thriving Greenwood District was known as the "Black Wall Street"...
by Dennis Lehane - Aiden Dennison, fictional character in the television series South of Nowhere
- Aidan DevaneAidan DevaneAidan Devane is a resident of the fictional town of Pine Valley from the ABC soap opera All My Children. He has been portrayed by Aiden Turner, from June 6, 2002 to December 21, 2009...
, fictional character played by Aiden Turner in the television series All My Children - Aiden Falconer, fictional character in the On the Run series of novels by Gordon Korman
- Aiden FordAiden FordAiden Ford is a fictional character in the Canadian-American Sci-Fi Channel television series Stargate Atlantis, a military science fiction show about a military team exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices...
, fictional character in the television series Stargate Atlantis - Aidan of Gwynedd, fictional character in the Deryni novels by Katherine Kurtz
- Aidan Haldane (Daniel Draper), fictional character in the Deryni novels by Katherine Kurtz
- Aidan Keller, fictional character played by David DorfmanDavid DorfmanDavid Dorfman is an American teen actor. His most notable role was as Aidan Keller in the 2002 horror film remake The Ring, and its 2005 sequel The Ring Two. He has also appeared in the 2000 film Panic as Sammy. Some people may remember him as the character "Charles Wallace Murry" in the film...
in the film The Ring - Aidan Kerrigan, fictional character in the novel The Jem StarThe Jem StarThe Jem Star is a young adult fantasy novel by English author Karen Drury, the first novel in her MEDLAR series. It was first published on the 1st May 2007...
by Karen Drury - Aiden Lucas, fictional character in the television series Ghost Whisperer
- Aidan Lynch, fictional character in the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Aidan Savage, fictional character in the novel Dark GoldDark GoldDark Gold is the third book in Christine Feehan’s Dark Series. It takes place approximately 23 years after the events in Dark Desire. It was published in April 2000.-Synopsis:...
by Christine Feehan
- Aidan Shaw, fictional character played by John Corbett in the television series Sex and the City
- Aidan Bedwyn, fictional character in the Slightly series by Mary BaloghMary BaloghMary Balogh is a Welsh-Canadian historical romance novelist.-Personal life:...
- Aidan McCollin, fictional vampire from Syfy series Being Human