How Many People Are Named Cayden?
people named Cayden are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 8,004 people in the US has this name
Based on 43,123 babies named Cayden in Social Security records from 1990 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,907 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CADEN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cayden in English. Counting Cayden and these spellings together, about 348,274 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Cayden, 4.4% were girls and 95.6% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1990s: 7.9% of the babies were girls then and 2.1% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cayden alive today is about 13 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 17 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cayden first appears in the records in 1990 and was given most often in 2009, to 2,907 babies. In 2025, 788 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1990 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cayden has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #143, in 2009. In 2025 it ranked #414.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #414 |
| Best rank | #143 (2009) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #197 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cayden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cayden were born in Texas than in any other state: about 3,812 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cayden was given 2.2 times as often in Mississippi, 1.8 times in South Carolina and 1.7 times in Alabama.
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