Alden

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alden".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
908
Peak Births
41
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1924
Peak Percentile
3.8%
Current Percentile
2.1%
Peak Rank
#568
Current Rank
#927
Female statistics
Total Births
17,245
Peak Births
445
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
42.9%
Current Percentile
41.6%
Peak Rank
#185
Current Rank
#532
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Alden

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alden. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 62.2% confident that Alden is pronounced as AWL-duhn. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-duhn, at 37.8% confidence.

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AWL-duhn (2 syllables)
62.2% confidence
AO1 L D AH0 N
AHL-duhn (2 syllables)
Verified
37.8% confidence
AA1 L D AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Alden. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Alden, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AHL-deen (2 syllables)
4 names 2k births
AA1 L D IY0 N
AL-deen (2 syllables)
4 names 2k births
AE1 L D IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.