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Boden

Boden reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 757, and has been recorded 4,805 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 769th. About 4,800 Bodens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Boden

By the numbers

Total US births
4,805
Estimated living today
4,800
Median age today
8
Peak year
2023
Best rank
757th
Rank in 2025
769th
First recorded
1987

How old the living Bodens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,805 babies given the name since 1987, about 4,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 4,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Bodens

People named Boden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Boden is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Boden is most concentrated in Utah (5.1×), Minnesota (5.1×), Colorado (4.7×), North Dakota (4.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular boys’ names the year Boden peaked:

All the names of 2023

Boden elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Boden 348 790th
Ireland boys Boden 7 657th
Scotland boys Boden 7 614th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Boden against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.