Meaning not yet researched.
Caiden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 475 in 2025. Its best rank was #250 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #250 in 2008; #602 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caiden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#602 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #250.
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Caiden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 475 boys in 2025. Peak: #250 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 1,403 (2008).
In 2025, 475 US boys were named Caiden, making it the 602nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 57 places from #545 in 2024. That is 69 fewer than the 544 boys named Caiden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #250, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,403. For comparison, it was #284 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caiden in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 6 babies. In all, 23,862 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,931 babies named Caiden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,937 US boys were named Caiden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,596 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Caiden ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #284 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayden (81,717 babies since 1880), Caden (72,993 babies since 1880), Kaden (70,701 babies since 1880) and Kaiden (54,156 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Caiden 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 11 | #284 | #195 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #337 | #109 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #373 | #220 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #379 | #214 |
| New Jersey | 21 | #381 | #264 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #386 | #234 |
| Virginia | 19 | #410 | #202 |
| Florida | 46 | #422 | #227 |
| Maryland | 11 | #442 | #189 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #449 | #239 |
| Alabama | 11 | #453 | #134 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #458 | #232 |
| Kansas | 7 | #474 | #359 |
| New York | 34 | #481 | #274 |
| Ohio | 20 | #515 | #214 |
| Georgia | 19 | #543 | #175 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #575 | #360 |
| Indiana | 11 | #589 | #234 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #609 | #230 |
| Illinois | 15 | #610 | #335 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #641 | #235 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #655 | #318 |
| Missouri | 7 | #723 | #341 |
| Michigan | 10 | #726 | #248 |
| Texas | 36 | #753 | #324 |
| Colorado | 6 | #773 | #383 |
| California | 33 | #778 | #447 |
| Arizona | 6 | #854 | #374 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 475 | #602 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,718 | 544 | #545 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,390 | 608 | #496 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,740 | 713 | #435 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,314 | 735 | #420 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,062 | 801 | #383 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,238 | 931 | #354 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,839 | 948 | #348 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,524 | 1,049 | #325 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,653 | 1,133 | #312 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,345 | 1,295 | #284 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,503 | 1,354 | #272 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,347 | 1,301 | #271 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,583 | 1,195 | #295 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,769 | 1,228 | #287 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,765 | 1,297 | #266 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,031 | 1,329 | #262 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,790 | 1,403 | #250 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,492 | 1,213 | #284 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,110 | 1,032 | #312 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,598 | 849 | #349 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,619 | 657 | #399 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,971 | 471 | #512 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,112 | 269 | #681 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,869 | 157 | #978 |
| 2000 | — | — | 115 | #1,187 |
| 1999 | — | — | 85 | #1,384 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,961 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,552 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,709 | 22 | #3,213 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,720 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,231 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,017 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,297 |
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).