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The first name 
Colden

Colden is a male first name.

When two boys called Colden meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Colden is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Colden. In the SmartGenius ranking, Colden is #2,540 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Colden.

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

Colden -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Colden did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Colden seemed to be more popular than ever in 2016. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,122, 56 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Colden, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Colden was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Colden in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Colden a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,694 - with a total of 40 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Colden -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Colden is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 204 Americans in total bear this name. And these 204 men are located in only four states: Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Colden and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Colden in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 70,531 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Colden present.

Colden has 6 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With six letters, the name Colden is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.

With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Colden

If your name is Colden 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 Colden

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

Cat

Orange

Lion

Dinosaur

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Colden 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 Colden in Braille?

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

Colden

Colden

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

C
O
L
D
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Colden

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.

C
O
L
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. Colden sounds like this: