Meaning not yet researched.
Alden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 479 in 2025. Its best rank was #426 in 1911.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #426 in 1911; #598 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Alden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#598 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1911, at #426.
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Alden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 479 boys in 2025. Peak: #426 in 1911 · most boys in one year: 494 (2024).
In 2025, 479 US boys were named Alden, making it the 598th most common boys’ name of the year, down 22 places from #576 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 494 boys named Alden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #426, reached in 1911. The most boys given the name in a single year was 494, in 2024. For comparison, it was #725 in 2015 and #726 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alden in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 19,173 US babies have been given the name, 5.0% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,639 babies named Alden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,277 US boys were named Alden; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 494. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alden ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #101 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Aldon, Aldine and Aldin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aldon (1,618), Aldine (962), Aldin (721), Aldean (586), Aldene (352), Aldan (199), Aulden (122), Aldyn (106), Aldeen (61), Alduin (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 13 | #101 | #239 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #158 | — |
| Montana | 5 | #228 | #205 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #293 | — |
| West Virginia | 5 | #330 | — |
| Washington | 22 | #336 | #431 |
| Oregon | 11 | #352 | #377 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #392 | #471 |
| Michigan | 22 | #393 | #762 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #404 | #458 |
| Idaho | 5 | #436 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #438 | #303 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #441 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #449 | — |
| Colorado | 12 | #468 | #520 |
| Virginia | 16 | #473 | #467 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #501 | — |
| Indiana | 13 | #512 | #906 |
| Utah | 8 | #515 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #523 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #551 | #521 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #552 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #571 | #601 |
| Missouri | 9 | #597 | #562 |
| California | 48 | #607 | #721 |
| Ohio | 15 | #627 | #782 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #631 | #588 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #647 | #660 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #672 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #770 | #967 |
| New York | 18 | #771 | #829 |
| Texas | 34 | #790 | #941 |
| Georgia | 11 | #793 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #870 | #984 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,058 | #973 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,125 | 479 | #598 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,155 | 494 | #576 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,134 | 431 | #640 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,241 | 445 | #627 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,415 | 394 | #676 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,672 | 387 | #672 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,360 | 435 | #623 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,024 | 411 | #638 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,668 | 409 | #634 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,249 | 392 | #660 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,287 | 340 | #725 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,220 | 337 | #714 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,475 | 331 | #709 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,259 | 294 | #772 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,454 | 244 | #864 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,423 | 251 | #841 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,818 | 242 | #868 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,148 | 222 | #920 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,103 | 275 | #786 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,580 | 249 | #816 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,442 | 258 | #769 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,566 | 257 | #735 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,734 | 251 | #729 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,775 | 178 | #906 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,695 | 159 | #968 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,531 | 186 | #857 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,204 | 144 | #985 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,367 | 196 | #783 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,882 | 143 | #941 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,284 | 143 | #914 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,446 | 142 | #931 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,259 | 116 | #1,030 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,526 | 100 | #1,129 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,277 | 116 | #1,010 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,596 | 91 | #1,155 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,513 | 119 | #949 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,966 | 92 | #1,102 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,498 | 94 | #1,003 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,858 | 84 | #1,040 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,567 | 92 | #954 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,356 | 86 | #984 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,972 | 79 | #1,001 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,720 | 68 | #1,075 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,241 | 84 | #981 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,417 | 64 | #1,143 |
| 1980 | — | — | 57 | #1,214 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,030 | 57 | #1,206 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,775 | 53 | #1,229 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,901 | 48 | #1,289 |
| 1976 | — | — | 43 | #1,346 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,495 | 54 | #1,147 |
| 1974 | — | — | 44 | #1,270 |
| 1973 | — | — | 47 | #1,201 |
| 1972 | — | — | 44 | #1,249 |
| 1971 | — | — | 48 | #1,181 |
| 1970 | — | — | 59 | #1,063 |
| 1969 | — | — | 72 | #900 |
| 1968 | — | — | 53 | #1,017 |
| 1967 | — | — | 62 | #915 |
| 1966 | — | — | 66 | #888 |
| 1965 | — | — | 76 | #843 |
| 1964 | — | — | 76 | #875 |
| 1963 | — | — | 84 | #825 |
| 1962 | — | — | 60 | #985 |
| 1961 | — | — | 85 | #833 |
| 1960 | — | — | 86 | #821 |
| 1959 | — | — | 92 | #797 |
| 1958 | — | — | 86 | #807 |
| 1957 | — | — | 87 | #803 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,168 | 110 | #705 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,214 | 97 | #739 |
| 1954 | — | — | 86 | #768 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,680 | 98 | #722 |
| 1952 | — | — | 95 | #721 |
| 1951 | — | — | 99 | #699 |
| 1950 | — | — | 89 | #726 |
| 1949 | — | — | 83 | #754 |
| 1948 | — | — | 96 | #683 |
| 1947 | — | — | 124 | #611 |
| 1946 | — | — | 79 | #738 |
| 1945 | — | — | 105 | #592 |
| 1944 | — | — | 105 | #598 |
| 1943 | — | — | 126 | #565 |
| 1942 | — | — | 112 | #587 |
| 1941 | — | — | 103 | #584 |
| 1940 | — | — | 116 | #545 |
| 1939 | — | — | 117 | #530 |
| 1938 | — | — | 119 | #535 |
| 1937 | — | — | 132 | #499 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,703 | 120 | #514 |
| 1935 | — | — | 106 | #558 |
| 1934 | — | — | 144 | #471 |
| 1933 | — | — | 114 | #532 |
| 1932 | — | — | 158 | #448 |
| 1931 | — | — | 134 | #497 |
| 1930 | — | — | 146 | #490 |
| 1929 | — | — | 164 | #459 |
| 1928 | — | — | 171 | #464 |
| 1927 | — | — | 141 | #512 |
| 1926 | — | — | 183 | #450 |
| 1925 | — | — | 173 | #458 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,081 | 183 | #451 |
| 1923 | — | — | 176 | #461 |
| 1922 | — | — | 184 | #453 |
| 1921 | — | — | 193 | #442 |
| 1920 | — | — | 180 | #450 |
| 1919 | — | — | 167 | #454 |
| 1918 | — | — | 181 | #443 |
| 1917 | — | — | 166 | #438 |
| 1916 | — | — | 174 | #427 |
| 1915 | — | — | 155 | #436 |
| 1914 | — | — | 113 | #450 |
| 1913 | — | — | 93 | #445 |
| 1912 | — | — | 79 | #439 |
| 1911 | — | — | 46 | #426 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #861 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #840 |
| 1908 | — | — | 28 | #463 |
| 1907 | — | — | 24 | #472 |
| 1906 | — | — | 14 | #640 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #526 |
| 1904 | — | — | 18 | #516 |
| 1903 | — | — | 11 | #699 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #746 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #683 |
| 1900 | — | — | 13 | #699 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #715 |
| 1898 | — | — | 17 | #507 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #726 |
| 1896 | — | — | 10 | #722 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #795 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #788 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,038 |
| 1892 | — | — | 9 | #748 |
| 1891 | — | — | 9 | #638 |
| 1890 | — | — | 10 | #629 |
| 1889 | — | — | 10 | #630 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #919 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #752 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #696 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #939 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #849 |
| 1883 | — | — | 12 | #528 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #692 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #782 |
| 1880 | — | — | 9 | #641 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).