Caden
Caden was given to 1,742 boys in 2025, #201 among boys’ names; 72,993 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 72,100 Americans named Caden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Caden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Caden is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Also “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Invented by American parents in the 1990s to rhyme with the equally fashionable Aidan, Braden, Hayden and Jayden.
/ˈkeɪdn̩/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Caden?
#201 among boys’ names, 2025
Caden fell from #192 in 2015 to #201 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.1 to 1.0 per 1,000.
5,122 babies in 2007, the peak
Caden peaked in 2007, when 5,122 babies were given it (5,055 boys, #92 among boys’ names). The 1,752 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,742 | #201 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,686 | #211 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,845 | #198 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,625 | #223 | 0.93 |
| 2021 | 1,605 | #230 | 0.92 |
| 2020 | 1,484 | #242 | 0.86 |
| 2019 | 1,475 | #248 | 0.82 |
| 2018 | 1,614 | #237 | 0.89 |
| 2017 | 1,718 | #223 | 0.93 |
| 2016 | 1,994 | #202 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,142 | #192 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 2,064 | #197 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 2,216 | #183 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 2,694 | #151 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 3,046 | #134 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 3,413 | #119 | 1.8 |
| 2009 | 4,025 | #103 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 4,773 | #96 | 2.3 |
| 2007 | 5,055 | #92 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 4,775 | #91 | 2.3 |
| 2005 | 4,438 | #98 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 4,157 | #104 | 2.1 |
| 2003 | 3,629 | #113 | 1.8 |
| 2002 | 2,601 | #153 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 1,878 | #195 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 1,406 | #240 | 0.72 |
| 1999 | 1,002 | #288 | 0.52 |
| 1998 | 486 | #463 | 0.25 |
| 1997 | 326 | #571 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 268 | #633 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 215 | #726 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 206 | #731 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 132 | #935 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 147 | #868 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,893 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,087 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,547 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,161 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,884 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,490 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,175 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Caden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 72,993 Americans recorded as Caden, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls and 1,742 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caden, and how old are they?
72,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 72,993 Americans ever recorded as Caden. The median Caden alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 59,387 people named Caden (878 women and girls, 58,509 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62,687 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 47,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caden born?
The states with the most babies named Caden are California, Texas and Ohio, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 156 | #238 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 130 | #299 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 107 | #126 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 105 | #206 | 0.9× |
| New York | 101 | #197 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 78 | #167 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 77 | #125 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 71 | #177 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 64 | #158 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 61 | #149 | 0.9× |
Where Caden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caden is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1979 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 357,063 babies since 1880, Caden is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,752 of their 8,353 babies (21%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caden and names like it
- Compare Caden and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCaden peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Caden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Caden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.