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The first name 
Arden

Arden is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.

Arden – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Arden in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 10 out of 100,000 children are currently called Arden. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Arden at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Arden is number *** on the list of most common first names.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Arden

What does the name 
Arden mean?

The name Arden is dervied from Celtic and means ‘high’. It was originally a surname that developed from various place names.

In the US,... Arden is currently being used as a girl's name, but before 1960 it was primarily a boy's name.

Arden has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for given names. 10.3% of all common first names in the US start with this letter. The second most common initial letter in first names is J.

With five letters, the name Arden is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 10.3% of all first names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average.

Other names with 
A, r, d, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Arden – A, r, d, e and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Andre or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Arden

If your name is Arden and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Arden

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Arden, you can simply say:

Apple

Rocket

Dinosaur

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Arden is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Arden in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Arden

Arden

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Arden

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Arden is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
R
D
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Arden

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
R
D
E
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Arden sounds like this: