How Many People Are Named Kaden?

69,877

people named Kaden are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 4,891 people in the US has this name

Based on 70,701 babies named Kaden in Social Security records from 1977 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#724

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#317

See the top 100

Peak Year

2006

4,849 births

Trend

↓

Declining (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: KAY-dən
Gender: Primarily Male

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 Kaden in English. Counting Kaden and these spellings together, about 348,274 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
1.6%
Male
98.4%

Of the babies given the name Kaden, 1.6% were girls and 98.4% were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kaden alive today is about 15 years old, and 99% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 68,924
98.6%
30 to 59 952
1.4%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kaden first appears in the records in 1977 and was given most often in 2006, to 4,849 babies. In 2025, 1,040 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.

Babies given the name each year, 1977 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Kaden never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #92, in 2006, and it was in the top 100 for 4 years, 2005 to 2008. In 2025 it ranked #328.

Boys
Rank in 2025#328
Best rank#92 (2006)
Years in the top 1004 (2005 to 2008)
Rank in its biggest decade#118 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Kaden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Kaden were born in Texas than in any other state: about 6,280 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kaden was given 3.3 times as often in Wyoming, 2.9 times in Montana and 2.9 times in North Dakota.

Texas 6,280
California 5,253
Florida 3,115
Ohio 3,017
Georgia 2,544
Utah 2,498
Michigan 2,245
Illinois 2,214
Pennsylvania 2,192
Missouri 2,090
Indiana 1,945
Washington 1,894
North Carolina 1,833
New York 1,808
Tennessee 1,781
Oklahoma 1,717
Louisiana 1,595
Kentucky 1,501
Wisconsin 1,474
Arizona 1,370
Minnesota 1,328
Iowa 1,319
Alabama 1,267
Colorado 1,255
Kansas 1,232
Virginia 1,192
Oregon 1,140
Arkansas 1,059
South Carolina 976
Idaho 952
Mississippi 903
Maryland 869
Nebraska 832
New Jersey 625
West Virginia 596
Nevada 573
Massachusetts 530
South Dakota 463
Montana 451
North Dakota 411
New Mexico 311
Connecticut 305
Wyoming 241
Maine 231
Hawaii 207
Alaska 206
Delaware 146
New Hampshire 116
District of Columbia 59
Vermont 36
Rhode Island 34

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