Paden
Paden was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,549 among boys’ names; 1,981 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,930 Americans named Paden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paden?
#5,549 among boys’ names, 2025
Paden fell from #4,257 in 2015 to #5,549 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 10.0 per million.
79 babies in 1992, the peak
Paden peaked in 1992, when 79 babies were given it (74 boys, #1,312 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,549 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,386 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,615 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,372 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,886 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,889 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,304 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,697 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,646 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,959 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,257 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,225 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,169 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,941 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,091 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,388 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,439 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,283 | 28.4 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,958 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,436 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,905 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,846 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,022 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,932 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 55 | #1,969 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,161 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 49 | #1,981 | 25.5 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,225 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,902 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,626 | 31.7 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,720 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,623 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 57 | #1,589 | 29.1 |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,312 | 37.0 |
| 1991 | 52 | #1,620 | 25.7 |
| 1990 | 57 | #1,506 | 27.8 |
| 1989 | 59 | #1,425 | 29.5 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,255 | 35.0 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,091 | 41.8 |
| 1986 | 43 | #1,554 | 23.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,590 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Paden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,981 Americans recorded as Paden, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Paden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paden, and how old are they?
1,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,981 Americans ever recorded as Paden. The median Paden alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,764 people named Paden (215 women and girls, 1,549 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,839 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 673 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 942 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 319 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Paden born?
The states with the most babies named Paden are Texas, California and Utah, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 207 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 39 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 38 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Oklahoma | 31 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kansas | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Paden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Paden is most over-represented in Texas: since 1985 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Paden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,409 babies since 1880, Paden is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 34 babies (50%), 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Paden
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 Paden and names like it
- Compare Paden and PaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPaden peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paden since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Paden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.