Meaning not yet researched.
Cayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 774 in 2025. Its best rank was #143 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #143 in 2009; #414 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Cayden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#414 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #143.
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Cayden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 774 boys in 2025. Peak: #143 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 2,749 (2009).
In 2025, 774 US boys were named Cayden, making it the 414th most common boys’ name of the year, down 65 places from #349 in 2024. That is 194 fewer than the 968 boys named Cayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #143, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,749. For comparison, it was #213 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cayden in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 7 babies. In all, 43,123 US babies have been given the name, 4.4% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 20,472 babies named Cayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,322 US boys were named Cayden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,560. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,207 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cayden ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #201 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 Cayden 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 17 | #201 | #237 |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | #257 | #188 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #288 | #86 |
| Massachusetts | 20 | #292 | #223 |
| Virginia | 28 | #298 | #187 |
| Florida | 64 | #303 | #184 |
| Alabama | 18 | #303 | #101 |
| Indiana | 24 | #319 | #160 |
| Maryland | 17 | #320 | #159 |
| New Jersey | 26 | #326 | #259 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #336 | #186 |
| Illinois | 30 | #351 | #184 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #355 | #186 |
| Georgia | 33 | #359 | #118 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #386 | #150 |
| Oregon | 9 | #406 | #464 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #412 | #149 |
| Colorado | 14 | #422 | #363 |
| New York | 40 | #426 | #217 |
| Ohio | 25 | #427 | #160 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #427 | #260 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #447 | #155 |
| Texas | 74 | #455 | #251 |
| Iowa | 7 | #456 | #388 |
| Missouri | 13 | #464 | #204 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #488 | #174 |
| Michigan | 17 | #489 | #194 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #495 | #117 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #512 | #102 |
| Nevada | 5 | #525 | #279 |
| California | 57 | #538 | #359 |
| Washington | 11 | #607 | #352 |
| Kansas | 5 | #609 | #427 |
| Arizona | 9 | #680 | #308 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,567 | 774 | #414 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,482 | 968 | #349 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,146 | 1,027 | #327 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,227 | 1,164 | #295 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,988 | 1,178 | #289 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,192 | 1,287 | #267 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,473 | 1,367 | #264 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,517 | 1,463 | #251 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,711 | 1,534 | #241 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,295 | 1,560 | #243 |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,097 | 1,869 | #213 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,591 | 2,050 | #198 |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,174 | 2,389 | #172 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,889 | 2,378 | #164 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,793 | 2,576 | #150 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,721 | 2,581 | #151 |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,469 | 2,749 | #143 |
| 2008 | 167 | #1,421 | 2,322 | #173 |
| 2007 | 138 | #1,614 | 2,341 | #176 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,880 | 1,753 | #213 |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,692 | 1,574 | #223 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,824 | 1,242 | #264 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,266 | 1,013 | #300 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,899 | 699 | #375 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,877 | 398 | #543 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,205 | 300 | #624 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,267 | 209 | #763 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,118 | 136 | #1,005 |
| 1997 | — | — | 100 | #1,191 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,108 | 68 | #1,481 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,727 | 45 | #1,888 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,945 | 62 | #1,519 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,718 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,681 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,147 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,510 |
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).