How Many People Are Named Caden?
people named Caden are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 4,737 people in the US has this name
Based on 72,993 babies named Caden in Social Security records from 1979 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
5,122 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Sometimes explained as a derivative of the Irish surname Caden, which is a reduced form of the Gaelic surname Mac Cadáin meaning "son of Cadán". In actuality, its popularity in America beginning in the 1990s is due to its sound - it shares its fashionable aden suffix sound with other popular names like Hayden, Aidan and Braden.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Caden in English. Counting Caden and these spellings together, about 348,274 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Caden, 1.3% were girls and 98.7% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Caden alive today is about 15 years old, and 99% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 20 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Caden first appears in the records in 1979 and was given most often in 2007, to 5,122 babies. In 2025, 1,752 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1979 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Caden never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #91, in 2006, and it was in the top 100 for 4 years, 2005 to 2008. In 2025 it ranked #201.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #201 |
| Best rank | #91 (2006) |
| Years in the top 100 | 4 (2005 to 2008) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #112 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Caden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Caden were born in Texas than in any other state: about 6,824 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Caden was given 2.3 times as often in South Dakota, 2 times in Nebraska and 1.9 times in Iowa.
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