Walden
The boy's name Walden has been in the national records since 1908, with 1,527 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,181st. About 990 Waldens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Walden
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,527
- Estimated living today
- 990
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 2,441st
- Rank in 2025
- 3,181st
- First recorded
- 1908
How old the living Waldens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,527 babies given the name since 1908, about 990 are alive — 65 in every hundred. Roughly 610 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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.
Where the name comes from
From Old English walh (“Welshman”), genitive plural wala + denu (“valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Waldens
- Walden Bello (born 1945)Philippine political economist and socialist politician
- Walden Martin (1891–1966)American racing cyclist
People named Walden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Walden is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Walden is most concentrated in California (4.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Walden peaked:
Walden elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Walden | 20 | 6,667th |
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
Walden 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.