Paden
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 90.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,783since 1985
Paden over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,399 | 17 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,241 | 18 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | — | #4,780 | 20 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,811 | 27 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,230 | 24 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,610 | 21 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,586 | 30 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | — | #3,122 | 35 | |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #3,046 | 37 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,375 | 53 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,889 | 67 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #1,834 | 67 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #2,006 | 57 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #1,916 | 58 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #1,960 | 55 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #1,966 | 49 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #1,890 | 49 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #1,616 | 60 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #1,577 | 57 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,309 | 74 |
| 1991 | — | #1,615 | 52 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,500 | 57 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,425 | 59 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,249 | 67 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,088 | 78 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,535 | 43 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Paden! It came in at #4,333, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Paden
- 158 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #5,399)
- 1,588 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #5,399)
- 1,220 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 1987 at #1,088 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,936 boys born in 1987 were named Paden (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.0% of all boys named Paden (553) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 256 | #1,088 (1987) | #1,926 |
| 1990s | 548 | #1,309 (1992) | #1,699 |
| 2000s | 553 | #1,834 (2004) | #2,173 |
| 2010s | 315 | #2,375 (2010) | #3,607 |
| 2020s | 111 | #3,811 (2020) | #5,289 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Paden in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 205,357 of them was named Paden, which outranked 42.9% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,052Zacheriah10
- #4,052Zebedee10
- #4,052Zeeshan10
- #4,333Paden9
- #4,333Aakash9
- #4,333Aaryn9
- #4,333Abelino9
- #4,698Abdulla8
- #4,698Abrahan8
- #4,698Adrin8
Tied with 364 names at #4,333; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.