Given name & surname
Sladen
“mud”
Sladen is a surname, possibly from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sladen possibly goes back to Old English slæf, meaning “mud.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sladen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 162
- 162 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,621 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,621 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 153 as a first name in 2020; 119 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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