Kaedan — boys' name
379 babies named Kaedan in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
52% of everyone ever named Kaedan was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Kaedan in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kaedan
The Social Security Administration has registered 379 babies named Kaedan between 2000 and 2022, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kaedan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaedan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 197 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kaedan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kaedan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kaedan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 379 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kaedan at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kaedan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2000
- Peak year (2009)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
379 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 36 births in a single year.
Kaedan popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 2007 (Kaedan as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Kaedan accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kaedan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 197 births that decade — 52% of Kaedan's all-time total
Kaedan decade highlights
- Peak decade 197 births
- Runner-up 159 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kaedan's strongest decade
197 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Kaedan by state
Where Kaedan concentrates geographically — total births since 2000
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 8 | 2.1% |
8 of 379 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2000–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.