# Walden (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/walden/  
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 | “welshman”, “valley” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,527 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,527 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Old English walh (“Welshman”), genitive plural wala + 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 | 18 | 5,188 |
| 2012 | 21 | 4,674 |
| 2013 | 39 | 2,952 |
| 2014 | 28 | 3,781 |
| 2015 | 39 | 3,018 |
| 2016 | 40 | 2,987 |
| 2017 | 46 | 2,711 |
| 2018 | 54 | 2,443 |
| 2019 | 47 | 2,732 |
| 2020 | 44 | 2,803 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3,648 |
| 2022 | 36 | 3,332 |
| 2023 | 55 | 2,476 |
| 2024 | 38 | 3,210 |
| 2025 | 37 | 3,233 |

## People named Walden

- Bobby Darin, American singer and actor (1936–1973)
- Bishop W. Perkins, American politician (1841-1894)

## 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.