Meaning not yet researched.
Paden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,092 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,092 in 1987; #5,551 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,551 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,092.
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Paden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,092 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 78 (1987).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Paden, making it the 5,551st most common boys’ name of the year, down 161 places from #5,390 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 18 boys named Paden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,092, reached in 1987. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #4,259 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paden in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 9 babies. In all, 1,981 US babies have been given the name, 10.0% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 639 babies named Paden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 213 US boys were named Paden; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Payden (2,044 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Paden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,551 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,390 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,620 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,160 | 18 | #5,376 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,890 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,892 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,308 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,701 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,650 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,764 | 27 | #3,960 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,721 | 24 | #4,259 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,044 | 24 | #4,228 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,171 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,003 | 40 | #2,943 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,280 | 37 | #3,092 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,129 | 53 | #2,389 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,281 | 53 | #2,440 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,623 | 58 | #2,284 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,006 | 40 | #2,960 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,612 | 51 | #2,437 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,944 | 67 | #1,909 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,590 | 67 | #1,850 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,101 | 57 | #2,026 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,694 | 58 | #1,936 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,792 | 55 | #1,973 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,544 | 47 | #2,165 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,307 | 49 | #1,984 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,873 | 41 | #2,228 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,186 | 49 | #1,905 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,214 | 60 | #1,629 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,928 | 52 | #1,725 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,426 | 57 | #1,628 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,524 | 57 | #1,594 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,887 | 74 | #1,317 |
| 1991 | — | — | 52 | #1,626 |
| 1990 | — | — | 57 | #1,511 |
| 1989 | — | — | 59 | #1,430 |
| 1988 | — | — | 67 | #1,259 |
| 1987 | — | — | 78 | #1,092 |
| 1986 | — | — | 43 | #1,555 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,595 |
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).