Kaden
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #328 for boys in 2025, 1,034 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 4,746 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 4 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 69,595since 1977
Kaden over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #328 | 1,034 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #303 | 1,115 |
| 2023 | — | #281 | 1,196 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #267 | 1,292 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #260 | 1,330 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #253 | 1,395 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #244 | 1,535 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #220 | 1,703 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #209 | 1,858 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #200 | 2,033 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 | #179 | 2,345 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | #171 | 2,474 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #151 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 | #128 | 2,955 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | #119 | 3,294 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 | #106 | 3,598 |
| 2009 | #2,446 | 78 | #102 | 4,068 |
| 2008 | #2,609 | 71 | #100 | 4,508 |
| 2007 | #2,101 | 96 | #98 | 4,523 |
| 2006 | #1,939 | 103 | #92 | 4,746 |
| 2005 | #1,615 | 125 | #100 | 4,365 |
| 2004 | #1,909 | 98 | #105 | 4,137 |
| 2003 | #2,522 | 64 | #121 | 3,337 |
| 2002 | #3,069 | 47 | #174 | 2,220 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | #223 | 1,549 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | #273 | 1,187 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #316 | 898 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #433 | 532 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #513 | 394 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #529 | 373 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #629 | 268 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #713 | 215 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #936 | 132 |
| 1992 | — | #1,097 | 100 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,528 | 57 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,530 | 55 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,831 | 41 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,599 | 22 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,641 | 20 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,268 | 14 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaden! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kaden
- 25 spots since 2024 (#303 → #328)
- 75 spots since 2020 (#253 → #328)
- 149 spots since 2015 (#179 → #328)
- Biggest jump: 223 spots in 1994 (#936 → #713)
- Biggest drop: 25 spots in 2025 (#303 → #328)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2006 at #92 (4,746 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 4 yrs · run 2005–2008
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1993–2025
- Highest: 1 in 433 boys born in 2006 were named Kaden (0.23%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,652 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 49.8% of all boys named Kaden (34,640) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 133 | #1,831 (1989) | #3,962 |
| 1990s | 3,024 | #316 (1999) | #822 |
| 2000s | 34,640 | #92 (2006) | #139 |
| 2010s | 24,431 | #106 (2010) | #173 |
| 2020s | 7,362 | #253 (2020) | #282 |
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.
Kaden in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 100,063 of them was named Kaden, which outranked 62.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,521Zenna18
- #6,521Zenovia18
- #6,521Ziggy18
- #6,792Kaden17
- #6,792Aanaya17
- #6,792Aara17
- #6,792Abbi17
- #7,100Aasha16
- #7,100Abena16
- #7,100Adaliz16
Tied with 307 names at #6,792; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 1,066 of them was named Kaden, which outranked 98.4% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.