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Paden

The boy's name Paden has been in the national records since 1985, with 1,981 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,399th. About 1,900 Padens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Paden boys named Paden

By the numbers

Total US births
1,981
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
23
Peak year
1987
Best rank
1,088th
Rank in 2025
5,399th
First recorded
1985
Girls / boys
198 / 1,783

How old the living Padens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,981 babies given the name since 1985, about 1,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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 Paden is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Paden is most concentrated in Utah (12.4×), Texas (7.3×), Oklahoma (6.1×), Missouri (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1987

The most popular boys’ names the year Paden peaked:

All the names of 1987

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Paden against another name

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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.