Bladen
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bladen has been given to 873 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 69 recorded.
Babies named Bladen, 2024
1 in 418,000
Bladen over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bladen?
Bladen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 215,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bladen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bladen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bladens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bladen was born before 2009 — so the typical Bladen is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 873
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (421).
Is Bladen rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (69)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Bladen
Bladen is not the most common spelling — Blake is, with 23.9% against Bladen's 0.11%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Bladen is used
Across 1910–2025, Bladen was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 392,201 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Indiana1 in —
- 5Nebraska1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Oklahoma1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bladen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bladen around the world
Where Bladen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2000–2022#4,790in 2022
- South Australia2013–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bladen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bladen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bladen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.