Meaning not yet researched.
Kadyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #833 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #833 in 2009; #3,018 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Kadyn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,018 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #833.
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Kadyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #833 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 260 (2009).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Kadyn, making it the 3,018th most common boys’ name of the year, down 689 places from #2,329 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 61 boys named Kadyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #833, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 260. For comparison, it was #1,465 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Kadyn, making it the 16,012th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,722 places from #14,290 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 girls named Kadyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,586, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 144. For comparison, it was #3,732 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kadyn in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 6 babies. In all, 4,732 US babies have been given the name, 30% of them girls and 70% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,376 babies named Kadyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 684 US boys were named Kadyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 100. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Kadyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,012 | 41 | #3,018 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,290 | 61 | #2,329 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,786 | 51 | #2,595 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,259 | 51 | #2,635 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,098 | 54 | #2,477 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,749 | 49 | #2,602 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,884 | 90 | #1,743 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,886 | 100 | #1,633 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,242 | 95 | #1,669 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,816 | 92 | #1,703 |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,732 | 115 | #1,465 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,299 | 136 | #1,302 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,920 | 150 | #1,198 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,387 | 175 | #1,073 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,495 | 170 | #1,093 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,414 | 226 | #903 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,882 | 260 | #833 |
| 2008 | 144 | #1,586 | 220 | #925 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,930 | 230 | #880 |
| 2006 | 112 | #1,829 | 206 | #922 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,956 | 214 | #861 |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,106 | 151 | #1,065 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,720 | 121 | #1,213 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,431 | 72 | #1,655 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,616 | 59 | #1,880 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,062 | 37 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,657 | 26 | #3,148 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,687 | 13 | #5,024 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,384 | 18 | #3,811 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,147 | 7 | #7,542 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,446 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,849 | 8 | #6,678 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,528 | — | — |
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).