girls:
198 births since 1992
#5518 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1985
#2971 (35th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1985
#5820 (25th percentile)
The name Paden is the #5,820 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,946 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 24.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,971 (35.2% percentile) for all time with 1,748 births since 1985. For girls, it ranks #5,518 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 198 births since 1992.
Paden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (1985 for boys and 1992 for girls).
The name Paden has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Paden were boys.
For boys, Paden reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #640) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 40 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Paden ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 15.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Paden reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #887) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Paden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Paden is pronounced as PAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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