Ogden
Ogden was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,722 among boys’ names; 810 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ogden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ogden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ogden is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “oak” (āc) and “valley” (denu).
Places in England, from Old English āc (“oak”) + denu (“valley”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ogden?
#8,722 among boys’ names, 2025
Ogden rose from #9,331 in 2015 to #8,722 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.3 per million.
25 babies in 1917, the peak
Ogden peaked in 1917, when 25 boys were given it, #1,425 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,722 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,793 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,139 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,796 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,997 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,626 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,498 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,250 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,712 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,425 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,331 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,812 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,936 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,673 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,482 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,128 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,606 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,849 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,873 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,692 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,500 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,175 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,301 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,493 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,283 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,986 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,236 | 2.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,381 | 2.9 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,561 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,439 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,879 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,856 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,440 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,234 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,891 | 4.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,625 | 3.1 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,954 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,293 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,813 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,044 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,366 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,229 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,062 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,156 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,756 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,087 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,407 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,355 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,891 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,200 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,427 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,177 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,208 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,287 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,285 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,012 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,387 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,785 | 17.9 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,779 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,923 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,116 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,810 | 18.2 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,678 | 20.7 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,047 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,636 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,425 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,496 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,644 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,749 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,771 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,128 | 41.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,326 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #980 | 61.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,372 | 37.8 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,142 | 44.5 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,202 | 41.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ogden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ogden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ogden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ogden, and how old are they?
An estimated 341 Americans named Ogden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 429 people named Ogden (10 women and girls, 419 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Ogden
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 Ogden and names like it
- Compare Ogden and SylvanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOgden peaked in 1917.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ogden since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ogden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Ogden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ogden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.