Kaydon — #3645 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kaydon

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,381 babies named Kaydon between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kaydon currently holds the #3645 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 98 babies received it in a single year. Kaydon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 80 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaydon performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 706 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaydon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 118 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaydon in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaydon 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 1,381 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.