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How popular is “Arden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Arden” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Arden” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Arden” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Arden” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Arden” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Arden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Arden” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1903 12 0.00003148 12 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 -100%
1910 17 0.000028779 17 -100%
1911 19 0.00002949 19 -100%
1912 48 0.00004858 48 -100%
1913 49 0.000043092 49 -100%
1914 63 0.000044481 5 58 -84%
1915 99 0.000054027 6 93 -88%
1916 81 0.000041873 81 -100%
1917 116 0.000057805 116 -100%
1918 114 0.000052508 114 -100%
1919 91 0.000043123 5 86 -89%
1920 112 0.0000495 112 -100%
1921 111 0.000047548 111 -100%
1922 124 0.000054168 124 -100%
1923 122 0.000052986 122 -100%
1924 139 0.000058364 139 -100%
1925 110 0.000047143 110 -100%
1926 100 0.000043556 100 -100%
1927 138 0.000059499 9 129 -87%
1928 153 0.000067671 39 114 -49%
1929 161 0.000073444 63 98 -22%
1930 227 0.000102101 90 137 -21%
1931 178 0.000084585 56 122 -37%
1932 162 0.00007673 48 114 -41%
1933 150 0.000075021 36 114 -52%
1934 188 0.000090523 42 146 -55%
1935 156 0.000074645 38 118 -51%
1936 164 0.000078938 35 129 -57%
1937 158 0.000074155 40 118 -49%
1938 158 0.00007141 17 141 -78%
1939 159 0.00007216 32 127 -60%
1940 131 0.00005689 27 104 -59%
1941 140 0.000057461 25 115 -64%
1942 126 0.000046123 15 111 -76%
1943 138 0.000048892 18 120 -74%
1944 114 0.000042378 23 91 -60%
1945 107 0.000040333 15 92 -72%
1946 107 0.000033487 31 76 -42%
1947 137 0.000038031 25 112 -64%
1948 108 0.000031282 22 86 -59%
1949 97 0.000027835 23 74 -53%
1950 100 0.000028544 20 80 -60%
1951 85 0.000023074 22 63 -48%
1952 87 0.000022907 21 66 -52%
1953 112 0.000029063 30 82 -46%
1954 92 0.000023111 22 70 -52%
1955 85 0.00002117 24 61 -44%
1956 88 0.000021343 24 64 -45%
1957 91 0.000021656 26 65 -43%
1958 91 0.000022013 22 69 -52%
1959 93 0.000022367 25 68 -46%
1960 82 0.000019741 25 57 -39%
1961 83 0.000020037 26 57 -37%
1962 63 0.000015612 18 45 -43%
1963 71 0.000017937 26 45 -27%
1964 59 0.000015176 19 40 -36%
1965 45 0.000012412 16 29 -29%
1966 42 0.000012084 11 31 -48%
1967 37 0.000010899 12 25 -35%
1968 55 0.00001628 16 39 -42%
1969 51 0.000014675 17 34 -33%
1970 47 0.000013032 12 35 -49%
1971 39 0.000011362 14 25 -28%
1972 32 0.000010181 11 21 -31%
1973 27 0.00000895 6 21 -56%
1974 40 0.000013158 15 25 -25%
1975 31 0.000010267 6 25 -61%
1976 26 0.000008569 7 19 -46%
1977 19 0.000005981 19 -100%
1978 28 0.000008822 11 17 -21%
1979 29 0.000008717 12 17 -17%
1980 26 0.000007548 10 16 -23%
1981 18 0.000005203 7 11 -22%
1982 23 0.000006557 11 12 -4%
1983 34 0.000009817 14 20 -18%
1984 29 0.000008312 14 15 -3%
1985 38 0.000010647 20 18 5%
1986 39 0.000010964 24 15 23%
1987 45 0.000012481 23 22 2%
1988 44 0.000011908 16 28 -27%
1989 46 0.000011965 27 19 17%
1990 39 0.000009867 25 14 28%
1991 46 0.000011809 25 21 9%
1992 56 0.000014579 36 20 29%
1993 81 0.000021484 63 18 56%
1994 103 0.000027706 78 25 51%
1995 101 0.000027579 75 26 49%
1996 81 0.000022209 64 17 58%
1997 102 0.000028132 79 23 55%
1998 121 0.000032896 92 29 52%
1999 125 0.00003384 97 28 55%
2000 140 0.000037038 105 35 50%
2001 152 0.000040605 122 30 61%
2002 175 0.000046813 143 32 63%
2003 215 0.000056544 158 57 47%
2004 210 0.000054961 159 51 51%
2005 204 0.000053058 147 57 44%
2006 205 0.000051818 148 57 44%
2007 246 0.000061536 167 79 36%
2008 289 0.000073524 219 70 52%
2009 237 0.000062039 167 70 41%
2010 249 0.000067375 194 55 56%
2011 254 0.000069441 178 76 40%
2012 299 0.000081753 223 76 49%
2013 308 0.000084484 239 69 55%
2014 339 0.000091464 245 94 45%
2015 392 0.00010592 300 92 53%
2016 380 0.000103579 275 105 45%
2017 351 0.000098149 229 122 30%
2018 398 0.0001132 274 124 38%
2019 407 0.00011726 278 129 37%
2020 404 0.000120937 236 168 17%
2021 388 0.000114524 227 161 17%
2022 396 0.000117051 241 155 22%
2023 455 0.000137413 241 214 6%
2024 479 0.000143909 237 242 -1%