Kaiden
Kaiden was given to 1,476 boys in 2025, #237 among boys’ names; 54,156 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 53,700 Americans named Kaiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaiden is “a male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden and Kayden.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaiden?
#237 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaiden fell from #140 in 2015 to #237 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.6 to 0.86 per 1,000.
3,352 babies in 2014, the peak
Kaiden peaked in 2014, when 3,352 babies were given it (3,269 boys, #124 among boys’ names). The 1,488 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,476 | #237 | 0.86 |
| 2024 | 1,716 | #208 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 2,135 | #170 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2,238 | #167 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,372 | #163 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,624 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 2,654 | #144 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,866 | #137 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 2,815 | #141 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 2,901 | #144 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,031 | #140 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 3,269 | #124 | 1.7 |
| 2013 | 3,113 | #122 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 2,674 | #154 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 2,408 | #161 | 1.3 |
| 2010 | 2,356 | #166 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 2,305 | #169 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 2,109 | #190 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 1,747 | #220 | 0.84 |
| 2006 | 1,410 | #243 | 0.69 |
| 2005 | 1,315 | #250 | 0.66 |
| 2004 | 1,007 | #312 | 0.51 |
| 2003 | 711 | #367 | 0.36 |
| 2002 | 428 | #526 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 285 | #654 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 192 | #836 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 133 | #1,043 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,482 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,711 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 47 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,270 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,812 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,306 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,700 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 54,156 Americans recorded as Kaiden, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls and 1,476 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaiden, and how old are they?
53,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 54,156 Americans ever recorded as Kaiden. The median Kaiden alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 34,685 people named Kaiden (1,366 women and girls, 33,319 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41,788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 135 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 33,500 |
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 Kaiden born?
The states with the most babies named Kaiden are Texas, Florida and California, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 143 | #274 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 129 | #169 | 1.2× |
| California | 101 | #348 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 86 | #153 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 84 | #141 | 1.4× |
| New York | 81 | #241 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | #213 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 54 | #169 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 51 | #247 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 45 | #218 | 1.2× |
Where Kaiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaiden is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1992 it was given 2.0 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 Kaiden 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, Kaiden is the fourth most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,488 of their 8,353 babies (18%), the third 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 Kaiden
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 Kaiden and names like it
- Compare Kaiden and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaiden peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaiden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaiden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kaiden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaiden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.