Paden is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Paden 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 Paden. In the SmartGenius ranking, Paden is #3,499 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 Paden.
Paden is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Paden - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 992 in 1987. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Paden really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Paden was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
23 babies were named Paden in 2022 - that's 1 in 8,968,111 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Paden ranked 3,845 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of having a man or boy named Paden in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Paden is registered in 11 states, among which are California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois or Kansas. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Paden live in Utah, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 35,834 men and boys in Utah for their name before you meet one who answers with Paden.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Paden 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.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Paden 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Paden, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Paden
Paden
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
D
E
N
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.
P
A
D
E
N
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. Paden sounds like this:
