Olden
Olden was last recorded in 1982, when 7 babies were given it; 514 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Olden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Olden?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,443, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1918, the peak
Olden peaked in 1918, when 22 boys were given it, #1,637 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #5,443 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,927 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,515 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,909 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,913 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,259 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,880 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,202 | 3.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,821 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,412 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 5 | #4,211 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,342 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,920 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,270 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,051 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,562 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,567 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,281 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,348 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,773 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,231 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,819 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,370 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,039 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,437 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,834 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,573 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,356 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,698 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,675 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,661 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,597 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,145 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,420 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,604 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,851 | 8.9 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,152 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,195 | 13.2 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,682 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,008 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,342 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,107 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,469 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,637 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,384 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,228 | 14.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,765 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,584 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,050 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,201 | 16.3 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,092 | 51.8 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,066 | 45.1 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,051 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Olden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Olden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Olden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Olden, and how old are they?
An estimated 120 Americans named Olden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 66 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Olden (0 women and girls, 198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 Olden
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 Olden and names like it
- Compare Olden and ColonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOlden peaked in 1918.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Olden since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Olden.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Olden alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.