Harden
Harden was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,541 among boys’ names; 771 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harden?
#3,541 among boys’ names, 2025
Harden rose from #9,920 in 2015 to #3,541 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 18.7 per million.
81 babies in 1921, the peak
Harden peaked in 1921, when 81 boys were given it, #735 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,541 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,238 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,193 | 22.2 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,644 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,322 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,954 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,542 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,038 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,248 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,897 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #9,920 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,084 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,925 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,508 | 2.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,646 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,385 | 3.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,134 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,795 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,369 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,058 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,064 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,600 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,033 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,426 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,936 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,494 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,126 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,128 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,110 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,010 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,471 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,292 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,979 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,695 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,550 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,743 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,761 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,960 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,951 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,421 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,836 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,446 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,145 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,478 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,496 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,805 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,060 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 50 | #1,004 | 45.9 |
| 1921 | 81 | #735 | 73.5 |
| 1920 | 46 | #1,024 | 43.2 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,918 | 17.3 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,766 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,830 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,314 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,209 | 8.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,010 | 9.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,358 | 36.6 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,102 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harden, and how old are they?
An estimated 333 Americans named Harden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 301 people named Harden (25 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,183 babies since 1880, Harden is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 112 babies (29%), again the second 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.
More about Harden and names like it
- Compare Harden and HardinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harden since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Harden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harden alive today were born 2013-2025.
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