Caiden
Caiden was given to 475 boys in 2025, #602 among boys’ names; 23,862 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,600 Americans named Caiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Caiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Caiden is “a male given name.”
Variant of Caden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Caiden?
#602 among boys’ names, 2025
Caiden fell from #284 in 2015 to #602 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.68 to 0.28 per 1,000.
1,445 babies in 2008, the peak
Caiden peaked in 2008, when 1,445 babies were given it (1,403 boys, #250 among boys’ names). The 475 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 475 | #602 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 544 | #545 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 608 | #496 | 0.36 |
| 2022 | 713 | #435 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 735 | #420 | 0.42 |
| 2020 | 801 | #383 | 0.46 |
| 2019 | 931 | #354 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 948 | #348 | 0.52 |
| 2017 | 1,049 | #325 | 0.57 |
| 2016 | 1,133 | #312 | 0.60 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,295 | #284 | 0.68 |
| 2014 | 1,354 | #272 | 0.70 |
| 2013 | 1,301 | #271 | 0.69 |
| 2012 | 1,195 | #295 | 0.63 |
| 2011 | 1,228 | #287 | 0.65 |
| 2010 | 1,297 | #266 | 0.68 |
| 2009 | 1,329 | #262 | 0.67 |
| 2008 | 1,403 | #250 | 0.69 |
| 2007 | 1,213 | #284 | 0.58 |
| 2006 | 1,032 | #312 | 0.50 |
| 2005 | 849 | #349 | 0.43 |
| 2004 | 657 | #399 | 0.33 |
| 2003 | 471 | #512 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 269 | #681 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 157 | #977 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,185 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,381 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 49 | #1,958 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,548 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,225 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,289 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Caiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 23,862 Americans recorded as Caiden, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 475 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 Caiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caiden, and how old are they?
23,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 23,862 Americans ever recorded as Caiden. The median Caiden alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 17,391 people named Caiden (483 women and girls, 16,908 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,981 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 79 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,000 |
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 Caiden born?
The states with the most babies named Caiden are Florida, Texas and New York, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 46 | #422 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 36 | #753 | 0.8× |
| New York | 34 | #481 | 0.8× |
| California | 33 | #778 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #449 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 21 | #381 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 20 | #515 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 19 | #543 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 19 | #410 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #609 | 1.0× |
Where Caiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caiden is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1990 it was given 1.7 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 Caiden 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 355,871 babies since 1880, Caiden is the sixth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 475 of their 8,404 babies (5.7%), again the sixth 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 Caiden
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 Caiden and names like it
- Compare Caiden and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCaiden peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caiden since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Caiden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Caiden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.