Shaden
Shaden was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 553 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaden?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,014, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 2007, the peak
Shaden peaked in 2007, when 36 babies were given it (25 boys, #4,097 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,905 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,380 | 5 | #14,014 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #13,767 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,252 | 5 | #13,713 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,030 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,293 | 10 | #8,054 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,635 | 6 | #11,987 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,710 | 6 | #11,901 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,747 | 8 | #9,425 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 8 | #9,475 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,844 | 14 | #6,185 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,125 | 15 | #5,937 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,994 | 8 | #9,453 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 10 | #8,032 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,980 | 16 | #5,759 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,692 | 19 | #5,030 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,701 | 25 | #4,097 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,488 | 23 | #4,193 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,784 | 14 | #5,824 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,457 | 14 | #5,739 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,834 | 16 | #4,998 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,365 | 19 | #4,296 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,247 | 5 | #12,012 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,894 | 13 | #5,523 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,352 | 11 | #5,971 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,931 | 8 | #7,424 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,898 | 7 | #7,969 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,413 | 8 | #7,001 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,663 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,538 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,104 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,939 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shaden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 553 Americans recorded as Shaden, 45% are girls and 55% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shaden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaden, and how old are they?
An estimated 546 Americans named Shaden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 566 people named Shaden (270 women and girls, 296 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 518 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,042 babies since 1880, Shaden is the second most given (27% of them).
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 Shaden
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 Shaden and names like it
- Compare Shaden and ShaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaden peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaden since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Shaden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.