Kaydon
Kaydon was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,348 among boys’ names; 1,496 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Kaydon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaydon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaydon?
#3,348 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaydon fell from #2,062 in 2015 to #3,348 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.0 to 20.5 per million.
106 babies in 2014, the peak
Kaydon peaked in 2014, when 106 babies were given it (98 boys, #1,604 among boys’ names). The 35 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,348 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,649 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,511 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,891 | 25.2 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,711 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,099 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,606 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,864 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,300 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,125 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,062 | 36.0 |
| 2014 | 98 | #1,604 | 51.0 |
| 2013 | 92 | #1,654 | 48.6 |
| 2012 | 90 | #1,692 | 47.4 |
| 2011 | 74 | #1,894 | 39.0 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,025 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 80 | #1,845 | 40.3 |
| 2008 | 79 | #1,852 | 38.7 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,966 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,386 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,816 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,815 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,753 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,980 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,035 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,582 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,814 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,060 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,037 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,685 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaydon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,496 Americans recorded as Kaydon, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 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 Kaydon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaydon, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,496 Americans ever recorded as Kaydon. The median Kaydon alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,175 people named Kaydon (107 women and girls, 1,068 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 769 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 704 |
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 Kaydon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #1,971 | 0.4× |
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 Kaydon 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 266,436 babies since 1880, Kaydon is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 6,207 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Kaydon
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 Kaydon and names like it
- Compare Kaydon and KaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaydon peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaydon since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kaydon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaydon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.