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Boden

#769 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Boden has been given to 4,805 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #769 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 344 recorded.

Babies named Boden, 2025

1 in 9,960

Boden over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Boden: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Boden means

Boden is a given name.

The naming story behind Boden

Wikidata records Boden as a given name. The entity identifier is Q92239902, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,805 boys were recorded with the name Boden between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 344 in 2023; its best national rank was #757 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #823 in 2020 to #769 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #983 in 2015 to #769 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Boden?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,960
333 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,130
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#769
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,902 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Boden sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,902 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Boden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bodens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Boden was born before 2017 — so the typical Boden is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,805
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (1,921).

Is Boden 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
+50
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+54
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+214
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.8%
Peak was 2023 (344)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#757
2023

Spellings of Boden

Boden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 19.8% against Boden's 0.37%.

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 Boden is used

Across 2016–2025, Boden was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 725 boys, against 1 in 6,519 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

1138 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 725
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 1,136
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 1,333
  4. 4Iowa1 in 1,887
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 2,273
  6. 6Utah1 in 2,326
  7. 7Maine1 in 2,500
  8. 8New Hampshire1 in 2,564

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.

Geographically, Boden is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 97% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Boden around the world

Where Boden 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 & Wales
    1998–2025
    #873
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2021–2022
    #657
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Boden

People whose public names include Boden, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Boden by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#769
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 54
Best rank ever
#757
2023
Peak year
2023
344 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,805
Count in 2025
333

Names similar to Boden

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BodieBodeBodhiAadenEldenHadenArdenBodeeZadenBodeyKaedenEidenJaedenHaidenLindenAudenRydenPadenBodiRaydenKydenJordenTaydenMadden

Names with a curve like Boden

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Boden, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JesiahZahirBenicioKylenYahyaZyonAyanKyrenAdlerZamirElielZayd

Sibling names for Boden

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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