Caeden
Caeden was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,674 among boys’ names; 2,210 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Caeden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caeden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caeden?
#3,674 among boys’ names, 2025
Caeden fell from #1,896 in 2015 to #3,674 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.2 to 17.6 per million.
157 babies in 2009, the peak
Caeden peaked in 2009, when 157 babies were given it (150 boys, #1,204 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,674 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,467 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,234 | 21.6 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,678 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,923 | 24.0 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,889 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,947 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,897 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,807 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,237 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #1,896 | 40.2 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,981 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,737 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,639 | 49.6 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,460 | 59.0 |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,409 | 61.5 |
| 2009 | 150 | #1,204 | 75.6 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,266 | 67.6 |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,289 | 65.0 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,290 | 62.8 |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,371 | 54.6 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,251 | 60.5 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,347 | 51.1 |
| 2002 | 127 | #1,127 | 65.4 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,627 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 59 | #1,813 | 30.0 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,612 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,511 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,265 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,079 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,041 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,893 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Caeden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,210 Americans recorded as Caeden, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 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 Caeden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caeden, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,210 Americans ever recorded as Caeden. The median Caeden alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,894 people named Caeden (71 women and girls, 1,823 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,969 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 645 |
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 Caeden born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #801 | 0.6× |
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 Caeden 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 354,020 babies since 1880, Caeden is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 8,356 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 Caeden
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 Caeden and names like it
- Compare Caeden and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCaeden peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caeden since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Caeden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caeden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.