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Alden
Rank in 2024
#578
Born in 2024
492
Peak year
2024 · #578
Origin
Old English
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 492 boys were named Alden, about 1 in every 3,486.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 17,739 boys have been named Alden since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Alden per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,746 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Silent: 2,292 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,712 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 883 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,570 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,549 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,803 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English Ealdwine, from eald (“old”) + wine (“friend”); equivalent to Alwin. In some cases a variant of Haldane.
- A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname.
- Origin
- Old English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Alden, CC BY-SA 4.0.