girls:
908 births since 1924
#4808 (16th percentile)
boys:
17.2k births since 1880
#875 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.2k births since 1880
#1909 (75th percentile)
The name Alden is the #1,909 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,153 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #875 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 17,245 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,808 (15.9% percentile) for all time with 908 births since 1924.
Alden has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1924 for girls).
The name Alden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.5% of babies named Alden were boys.
For boys, Alden reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 42.9% percentile (ranked #528) with 238 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 238 births per million (ranked 42.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alden is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #532 (41.6% percentile) with 235 births per million.
For girls, Alden reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #901) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alden ranks #927 for girls (2.1% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 70.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alden".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Alden is pronounced as AWL-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-duhn, at 37.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AO1 L D AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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