Bowden

#1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births

Peak · boys
2025 · 79 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
656
since 1976

Bowden over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Bowden has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201976boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#1,94279
2024#2,59551
2023#2,73747
2022#3,27836
2021#3,07439
2020#3,07437
2019#3,79428
2018#3,44632
2017#2,75544
2016#3,44132
2015#5,28917
2014#5,25217
2013#4,62120
2012#4,53321
2011#4,98318
2010#5,47816
2009#8,3109
2008#4,39522
2007#4,99618
2006#6,46012
2005#5,57814
2004#6,13812
2003#9,5816
2002#7,6438
2001#10,5565
2000#10,3495
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five boys were named Bowden! It came in at #5,587, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Bowden is popular in 1976

No state had 5 or more boys named Bowden in 1976, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Bowden
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 653 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #1,942)
  • 1,132 spots since 2020 (#3,074 → #1,942)
  • 3,347 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #1,942)
Rise & fade · boys
49 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,942 (79 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 21,621
  • Highest: 1 in 21,621 boys born in 2025 were named Bowden (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 44.1% of all boys named Bowden (289) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#5,587 (1976)#5,587
1980s0——
1990s6#7,792 (1995)#7,792
2000s111#4,395 (2008)#7,401
2010s245#2,755 (2017)#4,359
2020s289#1,942 (2025)#2,783

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Bowden in 1976

boys
#5,587
5 births · 1 in 313,801 boys

Top boys' names in 1976

  1. #1Michael66,915
  2. #2Jason52,643
  3. #3Christopher45,190
  4. #4David39,265
  5. #5James38,294
  6. #6John33,976
  7. #7Robert33,789
  8. #8Brian30,517
  9. #9Matthew29,951
  10. #10Daniel24,702
  11. #5,587Bowden5
More about 1976

boys

1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 313,801 of them was named Bowden, which outranked 14.0% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bowden
  1. #4,935Ziad6
  2. #4,935Ziyad6
  3. #4,935Zollie6
  4. #5,587Bowden5
  5. #5,587Abdulla5
  6. #5,587Abdur5
  7. #5,587Abiel5

Tied with 908 names at #5,587; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1975
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,506Seneca#4,309 → #803
  2. ↑ 1,165Jameel#2,134 → #969
  3. ↑ 712Delvin#1,658 → #946
  4. ↑ 567Jerimy#1,530 → #963
  5. ↑ 510Jamaal#1,042 → #532
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,113Santino#1,000 → #2,113
  2. ↓ 511Carnell#900 → #1,411
  3. ↓ 453Nakia#337 → #790
  4. ↓ 395Charlton#938 → #1,333
  5. ↓ 376Benjiman#970 → #1,346

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1976 →