Cayden
Cayden was given to 774 boys in 2025, #414 among boys’ names; 43,123 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 42,700 Americans named Cayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 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 Cayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cayden is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
A spelling variant of Caden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cayden?
#414 among boys’ names, 2025
Cayden fell from #213 in 2015 to #414 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.0 to 0.45 per 1,000.
2,907 babies in 2009, the peak
Cayden peaked in 2009, when 2,907 babies were given it (2,749 boys, #143 among boys’ names). The 788 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 774 | #414 | 0.45 |
| 2024 | 968 | #349 | 0.56 |
| 2023 | 1,027 | #327 | 0.60 |
| 2022 | 1,164 | #295 | 0.67 |
| 2021 | 1,178 | #289 | 0.67 |
| 2020 | 1,287 | #267 | 0.75 |
| 2019 | 1,367 | #264 | 0.76 |
| 2018 | 1,463 | #251 | 0.81 |
| 2017 | 1,534 | #241 | 0.83 |
| 2016 | 1,560 | #243 | 0.82 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,869 | #213 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 2,050 | #198 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 2,389 | #172 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 2,378 | #164 | 1.3 |
| 2011 | 2,576 | #150 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 2,581 | #151 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 2,749 | #143 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 2,322 | #173 | 1.1 |
| 2007 | 2,341 | #176 | 1.1 |
| 2006 | 1,753 | #213 | 0.85 |
| 2005 | 1,574 | #223 | 0.79 |
| 2004 | 1,242 | #264 | 0.63 |
| 2003 | 1,013 | #300 | 0.51 |
| 2002 | 699 | #375 | 0.36 |
| 2001 | 398 | #543 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 300 | #624 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 209 | #761 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 136 | #1,002 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,188 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,478 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 45 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 62 | #1,514 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,712 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,503 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 43,123 Americans recorded as Cayden, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls and 774 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayden, and how old are they?
42,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 43,123 Americans ever recorded as Cayden. The median Cayden alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 32,303 people named Cayden (1,620 women and girls, 30,683 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36,599 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 258 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 23,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,000 |
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 Cayden born?
The states with the most babies named Cayden are Texas, Florida and California, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | #455 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 64 | #303 | 1.1× |
| California | 57 | #538 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | #257 | 1.0× |
| New York | 40 | #426 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 33 | #359 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 30 | #351 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #386 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 28 | #298 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 26 | #326 | 0.5× |
Where Cayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cayden is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1990 it was given 1.8 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 Cayden 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, Cayden is the fifth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 788 of their 8,356 babies (9.4%), again the fifth 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 Cayden
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 Cayden and names like it
- Compare Cayden and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCayden peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cayden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Cayden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Cayden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cayden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.