How Many People Are Named Kayden?
people named Kayden are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 4,218 people in the US has this name
Based on 81,717 babies named Kayden in Social Security records from 1989 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
5,136 births
Trend
Declining (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 Kayden in English. Counting Kayden and these spellings together, about 348,274 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Kayden, 9.9% were girls and 90.1% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Kayden fell from 21.3% in the 1990s to 2.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Kayden alive today is about 11 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 15 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Kayden first appears in the records in 1989 and was given most often in 2014, to 5,136 babies. In 2025, 2,735 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1989 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Kayden never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #90, in 2014, and it was in the top 100 in 8 years between 2012 and 2020. In 2025 it ranked #135.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #135 |
| Best rank | #90 (2014) |
| Years in the top 100 | 8 (2012 to 2020) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #98 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Kayden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Kayden were born in Texas than in any other state: about 6,698 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kayden was given 2.1 times as often in Mississippi, 1.8 times in South Carolina and 1.7 times in Louisiana.
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