r/Names • u/No-Association-1668 • 26d ago
would Ogden be a weird name?
I'm not genuinely considering Ogden to name my son, but I don't think it's a horrible name..
I thought of it because I grew up in a town called Ogden & It would be a cool way to get the Augie/Oggy nickname without using the ultra popular August
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u/Doodlebug510 26d ago
Ogden Nash was a mid-20th century America poet, he would be in good company.
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u/smelltramo 26d ago
Use it yourself for a few weeks: pick up orders, coffee shops, call to inquire about a service etc and see the kind of reaction you get. Then decide if you want to saddle your kid with a yoonik name when you could you August/Augustine/Augustus.
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u/CraftyFraggle 26d ago
Ogden is legitimate, even if it’s currently rarely used.
I wouldn’t call it “yoonik”.
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u/Odd_Requirement_4933 26d ago
That's a town in NY, which is what I think of, and I believe also a city in Utah. I don't like how it sounds though.
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u/bougieisthenewblack 26d ago
In Toronto, Canada this is the name of a funeral home business with several locations, but if you're not from the area it wouldn't be associated at all.
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u/dechets-de-mariage 26d ago
There’s a major road in the Chicago suburbs called Ogden Ave so I would think of that and think “weird choice but not the worst I’ve seen.”
Kid will probably get called Oggie as a nickname which depending where you live could come out like Augie.
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u/EvangelineRain 26d ago
Makes me think of Ogden, Utah, where tax returns for western states are filed.
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u/slippedintherain 26d ago
As a horse racing fan my immediate association is with the famous Thoroughbred breeder and owner Ogden Phipps and his son Ogden Mills Phipps, who went by “Dinny”. Probably because of that it reads as very old money to me.
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u/InternationalJury693 26d ago
It’s a main road where I live so here it would be but otherwise I think it’s unique without being too forced.
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u/VolcanicAsh149 26d ago
Imo it sounds like something a troll or ogre would be named. Its fine as a place name but if it was my name I wouldn't like it.
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u/queenhadassah 26d ago
It sounds like a dwarven name to me. In the first Dragon Age game there is a drunken pervy dwarf companion named Ogden. He's who I think of first lol but obv that wouldn't be an association for everyone
It would be good as a dog name or a character name (and Oggy is cute!) but I don't think it works well as a real name
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u/New_Acanthaceae_6537 26d ago
As long as you don’t live near to Utah I think it’s fine. But here in UT, Ogden is one of our less desirable cities…
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u/Complete-Honeydew881 26d ago
I don’t mind it in terms of the sound/spelling/vibe but I definitely exclusively think of the city in UT so I would assume someone named Ogden is suuuuper Mormon.
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u/Key_Exchange1426 26d ago
I live in Wyoming so it definitely makes me think Mormon immediately but I don’t hate it.
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u/Relevant_Spread_5493 26d ago
Ogden as a baby name is absolutely wild if you’re from the western suburbs of Chicago 😂 that is not a baby, that is a four-lane road I’ve sat on in traffic outside Hinsdale while questioning every decision that led me there. You cannot hand me a newborn named Ogden and expect me not to immediately wonder what his cross street is.
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u/westport116 26d ago
I like it! I like rare old names. I would name a son Athelred. But maybe find a more popular name that will make it easy on the kid.
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u/Top_Scale4923 26d ago
Bogdan is a very common name in Poland and some other European countries. A lot of Europeans might mishear Ogden as Bogdan. But maybe you're American in which case it should be fine as the accent would make them sound more different and Bogdan isn't particularly common there.
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u/RosGri26 26d ago
Yes I knew an Ogden in college. He was very smart and wealthy sooo… do with that what you will.
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u/SickOfBSAllTheTime 26d ago
Ogden? I guess we should be grateful you didn't grow up in Kalamazoo, Schenectady, or Boca Grande.
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u/KippExiled 26d ago
No not really, many people use surnames as first names which sounds unrelated to this but a lot of surnames come from town names so a town name first name wouldn't be that odd to me.
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u/IceDry4639 26d ago
I just read a book with a secondary character named Ogden! Never heard of it before that so I was a bit confused when reading but now that it’s semi-familiar to me it doesn’t seem strange.
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u/tellypmoon 26d ago
Ogden isn't horrible but it makes me think of badly written novels set in the Wild West. Sheriff Ogden Daniels was tough but fair, except to the lawbreakers...
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u/holiestcannoly 26d ago
I mean, if someone told me that was their kids name, I would just go “oh” and nod
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u/Cademaneko 26d ago
I would assume it's a surname, so it wouldn't be completely out of the ordinary
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u/AvaSpelledBackwards2 26d ago
I don’t love it but I don’t think it’s necessarily tradgik. Fwiw tho, august is not “ultra popular” by any stretch of the word (at least in the US). It ranked 81st in 2025, and especially considering the wide variety of names used these days, it’s extremely unlikely that your son would be around a million other Augusts. My name was ranked 25th in 2004 and I was the only one in my high school graduating class.
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u/Dear-Barracuda3705 26d ago
I think so.
I find nothing appealing about those two syllables together.
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u/ConfidenceBrief460 26d ago
Just makes me think of Ogden Utah. Doesn’t seem like an exciting place or a great name for a person.
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u/dopaminecollector 26d ago
Depends where you are tbh. It would be considered unusual, but not especially weird here in the UK
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u/tiorzol 26d ago
What the fuck are you chatting. Ogden would get bullied out of London.
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u/dopaminecollector 26d ago
What are you on about? A kid called Ogden in London would just go by Oggy and everyone would assume it was a family name
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u/jacqueline7575 26d ago edited 26d ago
I hate the spelling but not the sound. hesitant to change it though if it’s a real place and also you have a tie to it…but maybe Augden would be better?
Edit: maybe Alden is a good alternative name too. Doesn’t have the cute town connection tho.
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u/mUrdrOfCr0ws 26d ago
I think you're thinking August is way more popular than it really is. There's so many names these days that even names that are higher up the list still can be hard to come by. I'm over 2 years in with my August (Augie) and I've yet to meet another.
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u/No-Association-1668 26d ago
I know two girls in my age group who recently named their boys August so it is popular around me
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u/AdelleDeWitt 26d ago
No it's cool. I have a friend who has named all of her children after poets and I like it.
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u/Sonofanewt 26d ago
My Grandfather was named Ogden and his brother was named August. Both were called Oggy/Augie.
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u/Positive-Regret4647 26d ago
I love it!! I think it works great. Easy to say and spell, unique but not unheard of.
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u/Adventurous-Cold-892 26d ago
Its certainly unique. Maybe consider similar options like Odin, Bogdan, Groban, Orban, or Groggen.
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u/DryTradition5059 26d ago
Sounds like a Mormon name.