Boden
Boden was given to 333 boys in 2025, #769 among boys’ names; 4,805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,760 Americans named Boden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Boden?
#769 among boys’ names, 2025
Boden rose from #983 in 2015 to #769 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.19 per 1,000.
344 babies in 2023, the peak
Boden peaked in 2023, when 344 boys were given it, #757 among boys’ names. The 333 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 333 | #769 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 305 | #819 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 344 | #757 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 282 | #858 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 288 | #828 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 279 | #823 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 234 | #931 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 217 | #954 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 183 | #1,076 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 179 | #1,096 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 210 | #983 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 210 | #990 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,152 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 189 | #1,017 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 187 | #1,038 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 162 | #1,135 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,211 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 168 | #1,090 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 157 | #1,112 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,477 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 89 | #1,502 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 59 | #1,960 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 55 | #1,996 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,517 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,410 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,369 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,695 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,516 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Boden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Boden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Boden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boden, and how old are they?
4,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,805 Americans ever recorded as Boden. The median Boden alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,907 people named Boden (35 women and girls, 2,872 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,018 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Boden born?
The states with the most babies named Boden are Minnesota, Washington and California, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 27 | #233 | 3.6× |
| Washington | 24 | #311 | 2.0× |
| California | 19 | #1,086 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 16 | #599 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #357 | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #668 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,015 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 12 | #644 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 11 | #759 | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 11 | #331 | 1.9× |
Where Boden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Boden is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1987 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Boden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,398 babies since 1880, Boden is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 333 of their 437 babies (76%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Boden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Boden and names like it
- Compare Boden and BohdanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBoden peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boden since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Boden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Boden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.