Meaning not yet researched.
Caden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,742 in 2025. Its best rank was #91 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #91 in 2006; #201 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Caden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#201 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #91.
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Caden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,742 boys in 2025. Peak: #91 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 5,055 (2007).
In 2025, 1,742 US boys were named Caden, making it the 201st most common boys’ name of the year, up 10 places from #211 in 2024. That is 56 more than the 1,686 boys named Caden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #91, reached in 2006. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5,055, in 2007. For comparison, it was #192 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caden in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 72,993 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 37,328 babies named Caden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,788 US boys were named Caden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,994. In 2025 that was about 1 in 981 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Caden ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #85 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayden (81,717 babies since 1880), Kaden (70,701 babies since 1880), Kaiden (54,156 babies since 1880) and Cayden (43,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cadin, Caedyn and Caedon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cadin (665), Caedyn (476), Caedon (410), Caidan (391), Cadan (328), Cadon (238), Caidon (216), Caedan (173), Caidin (96), Caedin (69), Cadien (53), Cadian (7), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 18 | #85 | #157 |
| Connecticut | 32 | #118 | #148 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | #124 | — |
| New Jersey | 77 | #125 | #186 |
| Ohio | 107 | #126 | #199 |
| Alaska | 6 | #145 | #174 |
| Massachusetts | 48 | #148 | #155 |
| Virginia | 61 | #149 | #142 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #152 | #187 |
| Michigan | 64 | #158 | #155 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #159 | — |
| Colorado | 43 | #165 | #145 |
| Minnesota | 40 | #166 | #169 |
| Pennsylvania | 78 | #167 | #146 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #170 | #211 |
| North Carolina | 71 | #177 | #134 |
| Maryland | 33 | #184 | #177 |
| New York | 101 | #197 | #216 |
| Wisconsin | 31 | #200 | #174 |
| Florida | 105 | #206 | #194 |
| Maine | 6 | #209 | #245 |
| Washington | 38 | #209 | #243 |
| Georgia | 58 | #212 | #112 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #214 | #155 |
| Iowa | 18 | #220 | #201 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #223 | #165 |
| Illinois | 52 | #226 | #174 |
| Idaho | 11 | #232 | #318 |
| Missouri | 31 | #232 | #233 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #235 | #165 |
| Montana | 5 | #236 | — |
| California | 156 | #238 | #246 |
| Indiana | 34 | #241 | #203 |
| South Carolina | 22 | #256 | #132 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #261 | #108 |
| Arizona | 29 | #272 | #262 |
| Tennessee | 32 | #274 | #139 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #288 | #156 |
| Texas | 130 | #299 | #235 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #316 | #170 |
| Alabama | 17 | #318 | #105 |
| Oregon | 11 | #357 | #274 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #372 | #319 |
| Kansas | 9 | #394 | #227 |
| Utah | 11 | #411 | #341 |
| Nevada | 5 | #524 | #277 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,573 | 1,742 | #201 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,655 | 1,686 | #211 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,096 | 1,845 | #198 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,122 | 1,625 | #223 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,084 | 1,605 | #230 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,688 | 1,484 | #242 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,222 | 1,475 | #248 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,709 | 1,614 | #237 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,522 | 1,718 | #223 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,963 | 1,994 | #202 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,064 | 2,142 | #192 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,134 | 2,064 | #197 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,056 | 2,216 | #183 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,857 | 2,694 | #151 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,163 | 3,046 | #134 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,832 | 3,413 | #119 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,007 | 4,025 | #103 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,542 | 4,773 | #96 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,719 | 5,055 | #92 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,167 | 4,775 | #91 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,205 | 4,438 | #98 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,177 | 4,157 | #104 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,395 | 3,629 | #113 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,931 | 2,601 | #153 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,040 | 1,878 | #195 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,008 | 1,406 | #240 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,894 | 1,002 | #288 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,705 | 486 | #463 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,036 | 326 | #571 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,073 | 268 | #633 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,699 | 215 | #729 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,706 | 206 | #732 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,997 | 132 | #937 |
| 1992 | — | — | 147 | #871 |
| 1991 | — | — | 41 | #1,899 |
| 1990 | — | — | 27 | #2,495 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,833 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,092 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,552 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,165 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #5,889 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,039 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,993 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,492 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,589 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,378 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,177 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).