Meaning not yet researched.
Kaden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,034 in 2025. Its best rank was #92 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #92 in 2006; #328 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Kaden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#328 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #92.
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Kaden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,034 boys in 2025. Peak: #92 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 4,746 (2006).
In 2025, 1,034 US boys were named Kaden, making it the 328th most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #304 in 2024. That is 81 fewer than the 1,115 boys named Kaden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #92, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,746. For comparison, it was #179 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaden in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 70,701 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 35,392 babies named Kaden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,491 US boys were named Kaden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,033. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,652 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaden ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #144 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), Kaiden (54,156 babies since 1880) and Cayden (43,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kadian and Kadynn 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kadian (156), Kadynn (77).
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 Kaden 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 14 | #144 | #156 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #226 | #83 |
| Indiana | 36 | #233 | #176 |
| Virginia | 36 | #241 | #220 |
| Kentucky | 22 | #247 | #124 |
| Maine | 5 | #250 | — |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #252 | #297 |
| Alabama | 22 | #254 | #122 |
| Missouri | 28 | #255 | #138 |
| Michigan | 39 | #261 | #159 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #271 | #129 |
| Georgia | 45 | #275 | #116 |
| Iowa | 14 | #283 | #131 |
| Ohio | 43 | #285 | #138 |
| Washington | 26 | #294 | #186 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #299 | #191 |
| North Carolina | 41 | #305 | #146 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #309 | #157 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #314 | #110 |
| Idaho | 8 | #316 | #129 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #318 | #120 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #318 | #258 |
| Maryland | 17 | #323 | #187 |
| Texas | 113 | #335 | #193 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #339 | #91 |
| Kansas | 11 | #340 | #171 |
| Nevada | 9 | #342 | #210 |
| Florida | 56 | #351 | #171 |
| Utah | 13 | #361 | #134 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #362 | #100 |
| Illinois | 29 | #371 | #172 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #371 | #270 |
| California | 91 | #377 | #249 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #397 | #163 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #446 | #124 |
| Colorado | 13 | #448 | #211 |
| Oregon | 8 | #454 | #195 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #457 | #279 |
| Arizona | 14 | #506 | #208 |
| New York | 28 | #566 | #229 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,997 | 1,034 | #328 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,874 | 1,115 | #304 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,196 | #281 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,404 | 1,292 | #267 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,807 | 1,330 | #260 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,878 | 1,395 | #253 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,397 | 1,535 | #244 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,938 | 1,703 | #220 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,612 | 1,858 | #209 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,188 | 2,033 | #200 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,743 | 2,345 | #179 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,310 | 2,474 | #171 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,293 | 2,636 | #151 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,471 | 2,955 | #129 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,297 | 3,294 | #119 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,857 | 3,598 | #106 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,458 | 4,068 | #102 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,614 | 4,508 | #100 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,106 | 4,523 | #98 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,947 | 4,746 | #92 |
| 2005 | 125 | #1,619 | 4,365 | #100 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,916 | 4,137 | #105 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,538 | 3,337 | #121 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,083 | 2,220 | #174 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,892 | 1,549 | #223 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,574 | 1,187 | #273 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,936 | 898 | #316 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,197 | 532 | #433 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,636 | 394 | #513 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,460 | 373 | #529 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,445 | 268 | #629 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,846 | 215 | #714 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,004 | 132 | #939 |
| 1992 | — | — | 100 | #1,102 |
| 1991 | — | — | 57 | #1,537 |
| 1990 | — | — | 55 | #1,538 |
| 1989 | — | — | 41 | #1,846 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,650 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,679 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,351 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,511 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,262 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,318 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,016 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,749 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,334 |
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).