Kaeden
Kaeden was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,697 among boys’ names; 5,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,200 Americans named Kaeden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaeden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaeden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaeden is “a male given name.”
Modern variant of Caden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaeden?
#2,697 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaeden fell from #972 in 2015 to #2,697 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.03 per 1,000.
377 babies in 2008, the peak
Kaeden peaked in 2008, when 377 babies were given it (362 boys, #668 among boys’ names). The 48 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,697 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,159 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 98 | #1,716 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,686 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,561 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,459 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,336 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,177 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 182 | #1,080 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,069 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 213 | #972 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 240 | #897 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 222 | #923 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 282 | #799 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 297 | #760 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 334 | #699 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 332 | #715 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 362 | #668 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 332 | #703 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 280 | #757 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 224 | #831 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 211 | #842 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 186 | #900 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,039 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,554 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,523 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,544 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,800 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,395 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,673 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaeden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,258 Americans recorded as Kaeden, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 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 Kaeden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaeden, and how old are they?
5,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,258 Americans ever recorded as Kaeden. The median Kaeden alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,152 people named Kaeden (173 women and girls, 3,979 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,699 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 | 29 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,890 |
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 Kaeden born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,186 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,332 | 0.7× |
Where Kaeden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaeden is most over-represented in Washington: since 1994 it was given 1.4 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 Kaeden 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, Kaeden is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 8,353 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Kaeden
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 Kaeden and names like it
- Compare Kaeden and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaeden peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaeden since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kaeden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaeden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.