Meaning not yet researched.
Kaydan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,489 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,489 in 2011; #4,320 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaydan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,320 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,489.
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Kaydan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,489 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 50 (2011).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Kaydan, making it the 4,320th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,460 places from #5,780 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 16 boys named Kaydan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,489, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 50. For comparison, it was #2,790 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Kaydan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #7,680, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 16, in 2009. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaydan in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 12 babies. In all, 867 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 436 babies named Kaydan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 288 US boys were named Kaydan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayden (81,717 babies since 1880), Kaden (70,701 babies since 1880), Kaiden (54,156 babies since 1880) and Cayden (43,123 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 Kaydan 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 | — | — | 24 | #4,320 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,780 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,980 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,249 |
| 2021 | — | — | 30 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,972 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,303 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,662 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,724 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,319 | 41 | #2,911 |
| 2015 | — | — | 43 | #2,790 |
| 2014 | — | — | 37 | #3,070 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,898 | 37 | #3,030 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,407 | 42 | #2,849 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,674 | 50 | #2,489 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,500 | 41 | #2,895 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,881 | 39 | #3,021 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,584 | 30 | #3,606 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,308 | 34 | #3,281 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,680 | 27 | #3,733 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,159 | 27 | #3,575 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,570 | 16 | #5,132 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,507 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,611 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,423 | 6 | #9,930 |
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).