Cayden
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #414 for boys in 2025, 774 births
Given to boys 95.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 2,749 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 41,245since 1990
Cayden over time
Rank among boys' names. Cayden has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | #414 | 774 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #349 | 968 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #327 | 1,027 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | #295 | 1,164 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | #289 | 1,178 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #267 | 1,287 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | #264 | 1,367 |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 | #251 | 1,463 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | #241 | 1,534 |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 | #243 | 1,560 |
| 2015 | #3,092 | 54 | #213 | 1,869 |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 68 | #198 | 2,050 |
| 2013 | #2,173 | 86 | #172 | 2,389 |
| 2012 | #1,886 | 106 | #164 | 2,378 |
| 2011 | #1,789 | 113 | #150 | 2,576 |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 | #151 | 2,581 |
| 2009 | #1,469 | 158 | #143 | 2,749 |
| 2008 | #1,421 | 167 | #173 | 2,322 |
| 2007 | #1,613 | 138 | #176 | 2,341 |
| 2006 | #1,878 | 108 | #213 | 1,753 |
| 2005 | #1,690 | 117 | #223 | 1,574 |
| 2004 | #1,820 | 104 | #264 | 1,242 |
| 2003 | #2,260 | 75 | #300 | 1,013 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #375 | 699 |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | #543 | 398 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #624 | 300 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #763 | 209 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #1,005 | 136 |
| 1997 | — | #1,190 | 100 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,480 | 68 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #1,887 | 45 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #1,516 | 62 |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,670 | 26 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cayden! It came in at #6,415, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cayden
- 65 spots since 2024 (#349 → #414)
- 147 spots since 2020 (#267 → #414)
- 201 spots since 2015 (#213 → #414)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1999 (#1,005 → #763)
- Biggest drop: 65 spots in 2025 (#349 → #414)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2009 at #143 (2,749 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 722 boys born in 2009 were named Cayden (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,207 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 47.9% of all boys named Cayden (19,767) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 689 | #763 (1999) | #2,472 |
| 2000s | 14,391 | #143 (2009) | #303 |
| 2010s | 19,767 | #150 (2011) | #205 |
| 2020s | 6,398 | #267 (2020) | #324 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cayden in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 11,323 of them was named Cayden, which outranked 93.1% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,415Camdyn168
- #1,415Milana168
- #1,415Zaira168
- #1,421Cayden167
- #1,421Emmaline167
- #1,421Jael167
- #1,421Jaycie167
- #1,426Jaila166
- #1,426Jordynn166
- #1,426Madysen166
Tied with 4 names at #1,421; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 879 of them was named Cayden, which outranked 98.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.