Arden — #943 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arden

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,340 babies named Arden between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arden currently holds the #943 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 242 babies received it in a single year. Arden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7,253 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arden performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 1,266 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Arden shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Wisconsin, which accounts for 449 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Arden in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arden 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 8,340 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.