Arden

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Arden: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Arden: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #339, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#339highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2000	#2167
2003	#4373
2012	#3285
2013	#4050
2014	#4003
2016	#4096
2017	#3583
2019	#2458
2020	#2449
2021	#2711
2022	#3148
2023	#2927
2024	#2771

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 14 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #619 among boys in Scotland, #711 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Arden appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 22 ranked years and 276 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 1999.

Arden across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Arden's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#2167 (2000)	#2771 (2024)	14 of 26	94 (1999–2024)	10 (2019)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#711 (2024)	#711 (2024)	22 of 24	276 (2001–2024)	50 (2024)

Arden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Arden in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	27	7 of 10	4
2010s	94	10 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	155	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 31 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Arden appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #339 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Arden's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#711	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#987	30	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#985	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1273	20	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #339, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Arda · #363, 26y
Ardan · #416, 7y
Ardi · #2587, 10y
Are · #103, 78y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Colt · #339, 25y
Gigi · #339, 23y
Nikkita · #339, 21y
Nichole · #340, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Antoine · #339, 30y
Callam · #339, 18y
Colt · #339, 25y
Gigi · #339, 23y

Arden was ranked #339 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Arden and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Arden without appearing here.

Arden moved ahead of

Finley Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3583 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3583 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #5591.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Erin Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4685 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1703 and #4812.

Moved ahead of Arden

Marilyn Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2167 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #1843.
Dylan Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2167 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #2191.
Fiadh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4003 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2757.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Arden

Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 while Aaron went from #40 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 while Alan went from #270 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 while Alex went from #45 to #171.

Moved the same way as Arden

Albie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 and Albie from #728 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 and Alfie from #54 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 and Alfred from #149 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arden went from #3134 to #711 and Archie from #60 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #339 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arden

Arden at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arden across 2 official records

Arden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Arden appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Arden

Arden and the names beside it

Arden moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arden

Moved the opposite way to Arden

Moved the same way as Arden

Arden at a glance

Arden across 2 official records

Arden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Arden appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Arden

Arden and the names beside it

Arden moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arden

Moved the opposite way to Arden

Moved the same way as Arden