Carden — #7027 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carden

The Social Security Administration has registered 413 babies named Carden between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carden currently holds the #7027 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Carden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 37 additional births since 2004.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 217 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Carden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Carden in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carden 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 413 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.