Tilden — #3093 US boys' name
1,304 babies named Tilden in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 78% of names given to boys today.
17% of everyone ever named Tilden was born in this single decade.
39 babies were named Tilden in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tilden
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,304 babies named Tilden between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tilden currently holds the #3093 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Tilden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 90 additional births since 2005.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tilden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 220 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Tilden shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Tilden in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tilden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,304 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tilden at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Tilden popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1880
- Peak year (2022)
- 39
- Annual births at peak — across 145 years of records
Currently ranks #3093 among boys.
1,304 total births across 145 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 39 births in a single year.
Tilden popularity over time — girls
90 total births recorded since 2005 (Tilden as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tilden accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tilden by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 220 births that decade — 17% of Tilden's all-time total
Tilden decade highlights
- Peak decade 220 births
- Runner-up 179 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Tilden's strongest decade
220 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 17% of all-time use.
Tilden by state
Where Tilden concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 55 | 4.2% |
| #2 | California | | 23 | 1.8% |
55 of 1,304 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 4.2% of nationwide
- California 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 4.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.