# Ogden (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ogden/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | “oak”, “valley” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 810 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 810 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Places in England, from Old English āc (“oak”) + denu (“valley”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 6,488 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,679 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,941 |
| 2014 | 20 | 4,816 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,337 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,430 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,716 |
| 2018 | 18 | 5,254 |
| 2019 | 17 | 5,502 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,630 |
| 2021 | 10 | 8,002 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,801 |
| 2023 | 15 | 6,144 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,798 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,726 |

## People named Ogden

- David Ogden Stiers, American actor (1942–2018)
- Ogden Nash, American poet (1902–1971)
- Donald Ogden Stewart, American author and screenwriter (1894-1980)
- Ogden L. Mills, American politician (1884-1937)
- Ogden Rood, American physicist (1831–1902)
- Ogden R. Reid, American politician (1925–2019)
- Ogden Crane, American actor (1873–1940)
- George O. Abell, American astronomer (1927—1983)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.