Colden — #5923 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Colden

The Social Security Administration has registered 990 babies named Colden between 1944 and 2024, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colden currently holds the #5923 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 56 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 424 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Colden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 193 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Colden in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colden 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 990 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.