Alden
Top 1000
About Alden
Hot young actor Alden Ehrenreich, the new Han Solo, gives this formerly-stodgy surname name an attractive new image, making it a fresh successor to Aiden or Holden. Before it got this fresh shine, Alden was among the classic Thanksgiving baby names.
Pronounced AWL-den.
As of October 2026, Alden ranked #598 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #426 in 1911, Nameberry popularity #177.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #714 | 337 | 175.4 |
| 2015 | #725 | 340 | 177.4 |
| 2016 | #662 | 391 | 206 |
| 2017 | #634 | 409 | 221 |
| 2018 | #638 | 411 | 226.3 |
| 2019 | #623 | 435 | 242.4 |
| 2020 | #672 | 387 | 224.2 |
| 2021 | #676 | 394 | 225.2 |
| 2022 | #627 | 445 | 254.9 |
| 2023 | #639 | 431 | 252 |
| 2024 | #576 | 492 | 285.6 |
| 2025 | #598 | 479 | 280.4 |
World rankings
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Alden on lists
Famous Aldens
- Alden Caleb Ehrenreich
American actor
- Alden Winship "Tom" Clausen
American former president of the World Bank
- Alden McNee McLaughlin
Premier of the Cayman Islands
- Alden Carter
American novelist
- Alden B. Dow
American architect
- Alden Richards
stage name of Richard Reyes Faulkerson, Jr., Filipino actor and TV personality of duo AlDub
- Alden Jenks
American composer
- Alden G. Barber
5th Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America
- Alden Carlson Mason
American painter
- Alden Albert Nowlan
Canadian poet
- Alden John Bell
Bishop of Sacramento, California
- Alden Partridge
American military education pioneer
- Alden Presley Osborn (b. 2019)
son of actress Angelique Cabral
Alden in pop culture
- Alden Jones
character on animated series "Braceface"
- Alden Pyle
character in film "The Quiet American"
- Alden Vacker
character in Shannon Messenger's series "Keeper of the Lost Cities"
- Kieran Alden
character in the "Sky Chasers" book series by Amy Kathleen Ryan
- Rev. Robert Alden
Church Minister in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series