Alden — #576 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Alden

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,739 babies named Alden between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alden currently holds the #576 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 492 babies received it in a single year. Alden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 933 additional births since 1924.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,443 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Alden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,562 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Alden in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,739 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.