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Paden

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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
Babies named Paden, by year of birthboys
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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

Decadeboys named Paden
1980s256
1990s548
2000s553
2010s315
2020s94

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.

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.