Meaning not yet researched.
Kaeden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #668 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #668 in 2008; #2,697 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaeden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,697 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #668.
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Kaeden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #668 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 362 (2008).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Kaeden, making it the 2,697th most common boys’ name of the year, down 538 places from #2,159 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 68 boys named Kaeden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #668, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 362. For comparison, it was #972 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaeden in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 8 babies. In all, 5,258 US babies have been given the name, 3.0% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,314 babies named Kaeden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,212 US boys were named Kaeden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 185. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaeden ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,186 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). Rarer spellings such as Kaedynn 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: Kaedynn (27).
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 Kaeden 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,186 | #1,175 |
| California | 6 | #2,332 | #815 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,697 |
| 2024 | — | — | 68 | #2,159 |
| 2023 | — | — | 98 | #1,716 |
| 2022 | — | — | 102 | #1,686 |
| 2021 | — | — | 112 | #1,561 |
| 2020 | — | — | 119 | #1,459 |
| 2019 | — | — | 136 | #1,336 |
| 2018 | — | — | 162 | #1,177 |
| 2017 | — | — | 182 | #1,080 |
| 2016 | — | — | 185 | #1,069 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,380 | 213 | #972 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,759 | 240 | #897 |
| 2013 | — | — | 222 | #923 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,192 | 282 | #799 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,882 | 297 | #760 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,494 | 334 | #699 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,872 | 332 | #715 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,323 | 362 | #668 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,563 | 332 | #703 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,902 | 280 | #757 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,400 | 224 | #831 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,010 | 211 | #843 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,763 | 186 | #901 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,038 | 148 | #1,040 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,567 | 78 | #1,558 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,984 | 48 | #2,107 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,527 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,548 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,806 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,806 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,401 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,679 |
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).