Kaden
Kaden was given to 1,034 boys in 2025, #328 among boys’ names; 70,701 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 69,800 Americans named Kaden 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 Kaden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaden is “a male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden.”
A spelling variant of Caden.
/ˈkeɪdn̩/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaden?
#328 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaden fell from #179 in 2015 to #328 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.2 to 0.61 per 1,000.
4,849 babies in 2006, the peak
Kaden peaked in 2006, when 4,849 babies were given it (4,746 boys, #92 among boys’ names). The 1,040 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,034 | #328 | 0.61 |
| 2024 | 1,115 | #304 | 0.65 |
| 2023 | 1,196 | #281 | 0.70 |
| 2022 | 1,292 | #267 | 0.74 |
| 2021 | 1,330 | #260 | 0.76 |
| 2020 | 1,395 | #253 | 0.81 |
| 2019 | 1,535 | #244 | 0.86 |
| 2018 | 1,703 | #220 | 0.94 |
| 2017 | 1,858 | #209 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 2,033 | #200 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,345 | #179 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 2,474 | #171 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 2,636 | #151 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 2,955 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 3,294 | #119 | 1.7 |
| 2010 | 3,598 | #106 | 1.9 |
| 2009 | 4,068 | #102 | 2.1 |
| 2008 | 4,508 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 2007 | 4,523 | #98 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 4,746 | #92 | 2.3 |
| 2005 | 4,365 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 4,137 | #105 | 2.1 |
| 2003 | 3,337 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 2,220 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 1,549 | #223 | 0.80 |
| 2000 | 1,187 | #273 | 0.60 |
| 1999 | 898 | #316 | 0.47 |
| 1998 | 532 | #433 | 0.28 |
| 1997 | 394 | #513 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 373 | #529 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 268 | #628 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 215 | #713 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 132 | #937 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 57 | #1,531 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 55 | #1,533 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,316 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,014 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,332 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 70,701 Americans recorded as Kaden, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 1,034 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaden, and how old are they?
69,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 70,701 Americans ever recorded as Kaden. The median Kaden alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 58,483 people named Kaden (1,137 women and girls, 57,346 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63,037 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 46,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 21,900 |
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 Kaden born?
The states with the most babies named Kaden are Texas, California and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 113 | #335 | 0.9× |
| California | 91 | #377 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 56 | #351 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 45 | #275 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 43 | #285 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 41 | #305 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 39 | #261 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #299 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 36 | #233 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 36 | #241 | 0.7× |
Where Kaden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaden is most over-represented in Utah: since 1977 it was given 2.5 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 Kaden 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, Kaden is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,040 of their 8,353 babies (12%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Kaden
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 Kaden and names like it
- Compare Kaden and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaden peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kaden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.