Meaning not yet researched.
Kayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,678 in 2025. Its best rank was #90 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #90 in 2014; #135 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Kayden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#135 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #90.
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Kayden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,678 boys in 2025. Peak: #90 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 4,742 (2014).
In 2025, 2,678 US boys were named Kayden, making it the 135th most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #125 in 2024. That is 217 fewer than the 2,895 boys named Kayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #90, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,742. For comparison, it was #95 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayden in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 6 babies. In all, 81,717 US babies have been given the name, 9.9% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 43,844 babies named Kayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 35,409 US boys were named Kayden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,040. In 2025 that was about 1 in 638 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kayden ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #28 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 8 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Caden (72,993 babies since 1880), Kaden (70,701 babies since 1880), Kaiden (54,156 babies since 1880) and Cayden (43,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kadon, Kaedon and Caydon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kadon (720), Kaedon (668), Caydon (666), Kaidon (651), Kaydyn (574), Kadan (503), Caydin (462), Kaidin (429), Kaedin (389), Kaedan (384), Caydan (289), Kadien (190), and more.
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 Kayden 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 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 55 | #28 | #34 |
| South Carolina | 74 | #65 | #57 |
| Alabama | 63 | #78 | #58 |
| Louisiana | 58 | #79 | #49 |
| Florida | 253 | #80 | #69 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | #84 | #90 |
| Georgia | 132 | #84 | #58 |
| New York | 212 | #87 | #84 |
| Massachusetts | 69 | #102 | #102 |
| North Carolina | 115 | #106 | #69 |
| New Jersey | 88 | #111 | #91 |
| Maryland | 51 | #115 | #99 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #116 | #87 |
| West Virginia | 17 | #119 | #100 |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | #123 | #88 |
| Indiana | 65 | #128 | #101 |
| Tennessee | 75 | #128 | #67 |
| Illinois | 87 | #135 | #92 |
| Oklahoma | 34 | #141 | #90 |
| Kentucky | 39 | #143 | #73 |
| Ohio | 95 | #145 | #108 |
| Virginia | 62 | #147 | #87 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #148 | #75 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #152 | #74 |
| Nevada | 21 | #152 | #102 |
| Iowa | 28 | #152 | #124 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #153 | #247 |
| Wisconsin | 42 | #154 | #133 |
| Delaware | 7 | #156 | #55 |
| Texas | 232 | #160 | #131 |
| Missouri | 41 | #176 | #89 |
| California | 207 | #188 | #161 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #188 | #134 |
| Arizona | 44 | #196 | #132 |
| Michigan | 48 | #209 | #95 |
| Maine | 6 | #221 | #105 |
| Minnesota | 28 | #230 | #188 |
| Kansas | 16 | #242 | #115 |
| Washington | 32 | #244 | #147 |
| Montana | 5 | #258 | #173 |
| Utah | 18 | #278 | #233 |
| Colorado | 23 | #285 | #165 |
| Oregon | 15 | #288 | #197 |
| Idaho | 6 | #401 | #130 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,946 | 2,678 | #135 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,736 | 2,895 | #125 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,456 | 3,135 | #114 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,200 | 3,483 | #106 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,999 | 3,584 | #108 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,734 | 3,650 | #99 |
| 2019 | 125 | #1,679 | 3,926 | #97 |
| 2018 | 154 | #1,438 | 4,004 | #97 |
| 2017 | 212 | #1,161 | 4,014 | #98 |
| 2016 | 254 | #1,042 | 4,040 | #101 |
| 2015 | 316 | #879 | 4,263 | #95 |
| 2014 | 394 | #713 | 4,742 | #90 |
| 2013 | 357 | #762 | 4,438 | #93 |
| 2012 | 497 | #586 | 3,884 | #97 |
| 2011 | 547 | #531 | 3,746 | #105 |
| 2010 | 627 | #481 | 3,304 | #123 |
| 2009 | 715 | #442 | 2,964 | #138 |
| 2008 | 824 | #393 | 2,596 | #152 |
| 2007 | 627 | #509 | 2,195 | #186 |
| 2006 | 466 | #623 | 1,570 | #230 |
| 2005 | 450 | #626 | 1,298 | #256 |
| 2004 | 354 | #743 | 974 | #317 |
| 2003 | 253 | #931 | 725 | #366 |
| 2002 | 150 | #1,303 | 454 | #502 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,949 | 278 | #659 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,526 | 212 | #782 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,404 | 141 | #999 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,874 | 102 | #1,210 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,442 | 76 | #1,432 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,918 | 65 | #1,544 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,829 | 51 | #1,748 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,194 | 36 | #2,237 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,572 | 33 | #2,321 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,847 | 20 | #3,284 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,737 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,136 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,449 |
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).