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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 158,246 of them was named Paden, which outranked 52.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,283Zenab12
- #7,283Zhana12
- #7,283Zyria12
- #7,742Paden11
- #7,742Aalliyah11
- #7,742Aashna11
- #7,742Abagayle11
- #8,334Aailyah10
- #8,334Aarin10
- #8,334Aariona10
Tied with 591 names at #7,742; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 38,472 of them was named Paden, which outranked 82.5% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,859Yonatan50
- #1,859Yusef50
- #1,859Zev50
- #1,890Paden49
- #1,890Amit49
- #1,890Aram49
- #1,890Benedict49
- #1,908Akil48
- #1,908Carmen48
- #1,908Damond48
Tied with 17 names at #1,890; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.