Paden
Paden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 198778 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1985
- 1,964people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,766 boys have been named Paden in the United States since 1985, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1987, with 78 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 31%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 198 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.
By decade
In 1987, its biggest year
Paden was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1987 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1987.
Names that rose and fell with Paden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jacolbypeak 1992
- Keganpeak 1992
- Jarellpeak 2008
- Dontaviouspeak 1991
- Deanthonypeak 1995
- Jarelpeak 1990
- Marquellpeak 1996
- Jordanpeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.