Cayden
Cayden is ranked 349th among boys in 2024 (963 births). Its best rank was 143rd, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- #349down 22 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 9630.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20092,749 births
- Best rank
- #143in 2009
- Since 1990
- 42,322people given the name
The story in the numbers
40,458 boys have been named Cayden in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 2,749 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 198 → 349).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 49%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,864 girls have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Cayden was the 143rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Cayden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaydenpeak 2009
- Kaydonpeak 2014
- Kaidanpeak 2010
- Prestynpeak 2008
- Aidenpeak 2009
- Braylanpeak 2011
- Jayveonpeak 2014
- Izayahpeak 2011
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.