Tilden
Tilden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 39 births. Its best rank was 741st, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 390.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 202239 births
- Best rank
- #741in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,394people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,304 boys have been named Tilden in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 39 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 90 girls have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Tilden | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 85 | |
| 1920s | 122 | |
| 1930s | 111 | |
| 1940s | 98 | |
| 1950s | 87 | |
| 1960s | 85 | |
| 1970s | 74 | |
| 1980s | 42 | |
| 1990s | 59 | |
| 2000s | 119 | |
| 2010s | 220 | |
| 2020s | 179 |
In 2022, its biggest year
Tilden was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Tilden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elihupeak 1928
- Orsonpeak 2023
- Manningpeak 1916
- Mercerpeak 2016
- Harmanpeak 2008
- Linuspeak 2017
- Bentonpeak 2016
- Edsonpeak 2019
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.