Ogden
About 810 American babies have been named Ogden since 1892, most of them around 1917. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 350 Ogdens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ogden
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 810
- Estimated living today
- 350
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 1,396th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1892
How old the living Ogdens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 810 babies given the name since 1892, about 350 are alive — 43 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Places in England, from Old English āc (“oak”) + denu (“valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ogdens
- David Ogden Stiers (1942–2018)American actor
- Ogden Nash (1902–1971)American poet
- Donald Ogden Stewart (1894–1980)American author and screenwriter
- Ogden L. Mills (1884–1937)American politician
People named Ogden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ogden is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular boys’ names the year Ogden peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.