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Haden

#3,686 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Haden has been given to 4,053 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,686 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 230 recorded.

Babies named Haden, 2025

1 in 111,000

Haden over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haden: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haden means

Haden is a given name.

The naming story behind Haden

Wikidata records Haden as a given name. The entity identifier is Q110796692, 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, 3,886 boys were recorded with the name Haden between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 230 in 2006; its best national rank was #770 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,751 in 2020 to #3,686 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,200 in 2015 to #3,686 in 2025.

In the United States, 167 girls were recorded with the name Haden between 1987 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,654 in 2001.

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 Haden?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,686
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haden 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haden was born before 2004 — so the typical Haden is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,658
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (1,863).

Is Haden 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
+2,312
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+65
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,486
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.0%
Peak was 2006 (230)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#770
2003

Spellings of Haden

Haden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 12.9% against Haden's 0.19%.

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 Haden is used

Across 1910–2025, Haden was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 75,260 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 25,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Utah1 in 25,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 50,000

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. Haden has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haden around the world

Where Haden 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
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2013
    #2,319
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1969–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Notable people named Haden

People whose public names include Haden, 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.

Haden in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Haden. Linked forms have their own page here.

Hayden

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Haden by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,686
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 65
Best rank ever
#770
2003
Peak year
2006
230 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,886
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,654
2001
Peak year
2001
20 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
167
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Haden

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

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Names with a curve like Haden

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

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Sibling names for Haden

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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