Xaden
Xaden was given to 128 boys in 2025, #1,420 among boys’ names; 521 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Xaden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Xaden?
#1,420 among boys’ names, 2025
Xaden rose from #5,049 in 2015 to #1,420 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.9 to 74.9 per million.
128 babies in 2025, the peak
Xaden peaked in 2025, when 128 boys were given it, #1,420 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 67 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 128 | #1,420 | 74.9 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,188 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,696 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,134 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,660 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,511 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,082 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,322 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,714 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,125 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,049 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,524 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,792 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,847 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,982 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,669 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,911 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,291 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,423 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,075 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #7,071 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,887 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,250 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,417 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Xaden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Xaden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Xaden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Xaden, and how old are they?
An estimated 517 Americans named Xaden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 2 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Xaden (0 women and girls, 255 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,316 babies since 1880, Xaden is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 128 of their 318 babies (40%), the 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 Xaden
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 Xaden and names like it
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