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How popular is the name Arden?

Births per year, rank history and how many Ardens are alive today.

Arden (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 716th in 2025 with 49 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 50 babies were given the name, the 711th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. Arden is one spelling of a name also recorded as Ardan; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Arden you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Ardens born in England and Wales are between 2 and 10, and there are at least 370 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Arden - on average, only one in every 819 such rooms contains a Arden.

How many babies are named Arden each year?

Includes all spellings: Arden, Ardan. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Arden spelling rank?

Where does the Ardan spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.