Kayden
Kayden was given to 2,678 boys in 2025, #135 among boys’ names; 81,717 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 81,000 Americans named Kayden 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 Kayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kayden is “a male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden.”
Also “a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kayden?
#135 among boys’ names, 2025
Kayden fell from #95 in 2015 to #135 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.2 to 1.6 per 1,000.
5,136 babies in 2014, the peak
Kayden peaked in 2014, when 5,136 babies were given it (4,742 boys, #90 among boys’ names). The 2,735 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,678 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 2,895 | #125 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 3,135 | #114 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 3,483 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 3,584 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 3,650 | #99 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 3,926 | #97 | 2.2 |
| 2018 | 4,004 | #97 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 4,014 | #98 | 2.2 |
| 2016 | 4,040 | #101 | 2.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,263 | #95 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 4,742 | #90 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 4,438 | #93 | 2.3 |
| 2012 | 3,884 | #97 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 3,746 | #105 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 3,304 | #123 | 1.7 |
| 2009 | 2,964 | #138 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 2,596 | #152 | 1.3 |
| 2007 | 2,195 | #186 | 1.1 |
| 2006 | 1,570 | #230 | 0.76 |
| 2005 | 1,298 | #256 | 0.65 |
| 2004 | 974 | #317 | 0.49 |
| 2003 | 725 | #366 | 0.37 |
| 2002 | 454 | #502 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 278 | #659 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 212 | #780 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 141 | #997 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,207 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,429 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 65 | #1,541 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,743 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,232 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,315 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,278 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,730 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,129 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,442 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 81,717 Americans recorded as Kayden, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 57 girls and 2,678 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayden, and how old are they?
81,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 81,717 Americans ever recorded as Kayden. The median Kayden alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 51,575 people named Kayden (6,853 women and girls, 44,722 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62,244 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 | 283 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 29,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 50,800 |
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 Kayden born?
The states with the most babies named Kayden are Florida, Texas and California, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 253 | #80 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 237 | #160 | 0.8× |
| California | 216 | #188 | 0.6× |
| New York | 212 | #87 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 132 | #84 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 115 | #106 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | #123 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 95 | #145 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 88 | #111 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 87 | #135 | 0.8× |
Where Kayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kayden is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1989 it was given 1.7 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 Kayden 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, Kayden is the most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,735 of their 8,353 babies (33%), again the 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 Kayden
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 Kayden and names like it
- Compare Kayden and CadenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKayden peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kayden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kayden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kayden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.