Kayden — #125 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kayden

The Social Security Administration has registered 70,872 babies named Kayden between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kayden currently holds the #125 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 4,741 babies received it in a single year. Kayden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 8,052 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kayden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 40,336 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kayden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5,732 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kayden in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kayden 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 70,872 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.