Colden
- #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 56 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,014since 1944
Colden over time
Rank among boys' names. Colden has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #3,053 | 40 |
| 2021 | #2,775 | 45 |
| 2020 | #2,980 | 39 |
| 2019 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #3,373 | 33 |
| 2017 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #2,335 | 56 |
| 2015 | #2,600 | 47 |
| 2014 | #2,929 | 39 |
| 2013 | #2,715 | 43 |
| 2012 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #3,114 | 36 |
| 2010 | #2,511 | 49 |
| 2009 | #2,847 | 42 |
| 2008 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #3,379 | 32 |
| 2006 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
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| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Colden! It came in at #3,109, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Colden is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
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- Not published
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- New York#1,576 · 1 in 14,070
Best ever in a state: #900 in New York, 2019.
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| New York | #1,576 | 6 | 1 in 14,070 |
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See more about Colden
- 1,655 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #4,249)
- 1,269 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #4,249)
- 1,649 spots since 2015 (#2,600 → #4,249)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 2016 at #2,335 (56 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 33,888 boys born in 2016 were named Colden (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.8% of all boys named Colden (424) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 6 | #3,109 (1944) | #3,109 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 17 | #6,229 (1989) | #6,817 |
| 1990s | 96 | #3,597 (1998) | #5,676 |
| 2000s | 278 | #2,847 (2009) | #3,709 |
| 2010s | 424 | #2,335 (2016) | #2,856 |
| 2020s | 193 | #2,775 (2021) | #3,779 |
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.
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