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Tilden

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Tilden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 39 births. Its best rank was 741st, in 1880.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
390.00% of boys
Peak year
202239 births
Best rank
#741in 1880
Since 1880
1,394people given the name
Babies named Tilden, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,304 boys have been named Tilden in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 39 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 90 girls have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Tilden
1880s18
1890s5
1910s85
1920s122
1930s111
1940s98
1950s87
1960s85
1970s74
1980s42
1990s59
2000s119
2010s220
2020s179

In 2022, its biggest year

Tilden was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Tilden

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.