girls:
37 births since 2004
#5679 (1st percentile)
boys:
400 births since 1998
#4186 (9th percentile)
overall:
437 births since 1998
#7302 (6th percentile)
The name Carden is the #7,302 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 437 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 5.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,186 (8.7% percentile) for all time with 400 births since 1998. For girls, it ranks #5,679 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 2004.
Carden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Carden is available in 23 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (23 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 77.3% of babies named Carden were boys.
For boys, Carden reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #884) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Carden ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 65.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Carden reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #980) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carden ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 66.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Carden is pronounced as KAHR-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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