Cadyn
Cadyn was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,185 among boys’ names; 1,469 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Cadyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cadyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cadyn?
#6,185 among boys’ names, 2025
Cadyn fell from #2,869 in 2015 to #6,185 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 8.2 per million.
142 babies in 2008, the peak
Cadyn peaked in 2008, when 142 babies were given it (94 boys, #1,641 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,185 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 11 | #7,333 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,358 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,487 | 13 | #6,539 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,449 | 11 | #7,166 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 15 | #5,746 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,684 | 15 | #5,852 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,108 | 25 | #4,104 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,850 | 24 | #4,236 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,716 | 33 | #3,370 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,265 | 41 | #2,869 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,500 | 34 | #3,243 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,452 | 40 | #2,855 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,293 | 52 | #2,418 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,714 | 67 | #2,020 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,809 | 65 | #2,069 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,293 | 83 | #1,798 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,436 | 94 | #1,641 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,708 | 87 | #1,721 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,171 | 89 | #1,619 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,041 | 81 | #1,659 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,835 | 50 | #2,283 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,436 | 36 | #2,737 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,424 | 27 | #3,268 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,474 | 20 | #3,983 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,228 | 18 | #4,225 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,566 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #6,929 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,075 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,993 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cadyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,469 Americans recorded as Cadyn, 28% are girls and 72% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cadyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cadyn, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,469 Americans ever recorded as Cadyn. The median Cadyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,251 people named Cadyn (372 women and girls, 879 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 364 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 226,194 babies since 1880, Cadyn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 4,220 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Cadyn
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 Cadyn and names like it
- Compare Cadyn and CadenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCadyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cadyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Cadyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cadyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.