Meaning not yet researched.
Kaiden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,476 in 2025. Its best rank was #122 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #122 in 2013; #237 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Kaiden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#237 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #122.
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Kaiden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,476 boys in 2025. Peak: #122 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 3,269 (2014).
In 2025, 1,476 US boys were named Kaiden, making it the 237th most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #208 in 2024. That is 240 fewer than the 1,716 boys named Kaiden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #122, reached in 2013. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,269, in 2014. For comparison, it was #140 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaiden in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 12 babies. In all, 54,156 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 28,786 babies named Kaiden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23,797 US boys were named Kaiden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,901. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,157 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaiden ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #80 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). 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 Cayden (43,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaidynn 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: Kaidynn (84).
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 Kaiden 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 33 | #80 | #63 |
| Georgia | 84 | #141 | #83 |
| Louisiana | 36 | #142 | #89 |
| North Carolina | 86 | #153 | #91 |
| Arkansas | 24 | #154 | #120 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #155 | #109 |
| Maryland | 37 | #164 | #132 |
| Florida | 129 | #169 | #101 |
| Virginia | 54 | #169 | #107 |
| Connecticut | 21 | #172 | #121 |
| South Carolina | 32 | #175 | #89 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #176 | #111 |
| Alabama | 32 | #181 | #81 |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | #213 | #136 |
| Tennessee | 42 | #214 | #96 |
| Kentucky | 26 | #217 | #110 |
| Michigan | 45 | #218 | #116 |
| New Jersey | 42 | #228 | #146 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #236 | #212 |
| New York | 81 | #241 | #127 |
| Ohio | 51 | #247 | #120 |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #253 | #160 |
| Illinois | 45 | #253 | #148 |
| Texas | 143 | #274 | #183 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #277 | #191 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #280 | — |
| Missouri | 24 | #288 | #144 |
| Indiana | 27 | #296 | #118 |
| Arizona | 24 | #327 | #184 |
| Minnesota | 18 | #332 | #200 |
| California | 101 | #348 | #232 |
| Oregon | 11 | #363 | #157 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #382 | #161 |
| Nevada | 7 | #418 | #153 |
| Iowa | 8 | #421 | #171 |
| Washington | 17 | #434 | #165 |
| Colorado | 12 | #486 | #205 |
| Utah | 7 | #589 | #370 |
| Kansas | 5 | #643 | #158 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,599 | 1,476 | #237 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,785 | 1,716 | #208 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,845 | 2,135 | #170 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,849 | 2,238 | #167 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,057 | 2,372 | #163 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,308 | 2,624 | #139 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,043 | 2,654 | #144 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,640 | 2,866 | #137 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,589 | 2,815 | #141 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,035 | 2,901 | #144 |
| 2015 | 66 | #2,698 | 3,031 | #140 |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,261 | 3,269 | #124 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,145 | 3,113 | #122 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,895 | 2,674 | #154 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,108 | 2,408 | #161 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,191 | 2,356 | #166 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,800 | 2,305 | #169 |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,995 | 2,109 | #190 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,107 | 1,747 | #220 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,814 | 1,410 | #243 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,269 | 1,315 | #250 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,917 | 1,007 | #312 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,439 | 711 | #367 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,432 | 428 | #526 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,759 | 285 | #654 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,395 | 192 | #838 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,492 | 133 | #1,045 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,202 | 75 | #1,485 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,245 | 57 | #1,714 |
| 1996 | — | — | 47 | #1,921 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,275 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,817 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,312 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,707 |
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).