Bowden
#1,944 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bowden has been given to 656 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,944 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Bowden, 2025
1 in 42,000
Bowden 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bowden?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,000
- 79 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 21,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,944
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,088 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bowden sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bowden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bowdens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bowden was born before 2018 — so the typical Bowden is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 44.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 656
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (289).
Is Bowden 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
- +659
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,134
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,374
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.65×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (79)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Bowden
Bowden is not the most common spelling — Owen is, with 63.8% against Bowden's 0.17%.
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 Bowden is used
Across 1910–2025, Bowden was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,473,236 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Dakota1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 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. Bowden has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bowden around the world
Where Bowden 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 & Wales2009–2025#3,684in 2025
- Canada2014–2024#2,134in 2024
- South Australia1987–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bowden by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bowden
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bowden
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.