Kaidan
Kaidan was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,992 among boys’ names; 1,206 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Kaidan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaidan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaidan?
#5,992 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaidan fell from #2,247 in 2015 to #5,992 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.3 to 8.8 per million.
83 babies in 2014, the peak
Kaidan peaked in 2014, when 83 babies were given it (77 boys, #1,895 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,992 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,154 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,971 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,889 | 25.2 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,538 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,074 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,296 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,333 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,774 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 54 | #2,397 | 28.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,247 | 31.3 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,895 | 40.1 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,888 | 39.6 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,193 | 31.6 |
| 2011 | 76 | #1,853 | 40.0 |
| 2010 | 77 | #1,873 | 40.1 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,042 | 34.3 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,736 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,321 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,301 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,168 | 28.0 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,547 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,483 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,600 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,841 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,102 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaidan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,206 Americans recorded as Kaidan, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 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 Kaidan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaidan, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,206 Americans ever recorded as Kaidan. The median Kaidan alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 945 people named Kaidan (94 women and girls, 851 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,048 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 554 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 246,885 babies since 1880, Kaidan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 5,874 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Kaidan
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 Kaidan and names like it
- Compare Kaidan and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaidan since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kaidan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaidan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.