Caden
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #201 for boys in 2025, 1,742 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 4,775 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 4 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 72,045since 1979
Caden 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 | #9,457 | 10 | #201 | 1,742 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #211 | 1,686 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #198 | 1,845 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #223 | 1,625 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #230 | 1,605 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #242 | 1,484 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #248 | 1,475 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #237 | 1,614 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #223 | 1,718 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #202 | 1,994 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #192 | 2,142 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #197 | 2,064 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #183 | 2,216 |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 | #151 | 2,694 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | #134 | 3,046 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 | #119 | 3,413 |
| 2009 | #3,000 | 57 | #103 | 4,025 |
| 2008 | #2,538 | 74 | #96 | 4,773 |
| 2007 | #2,710 | 67 | #92 | 5,055 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 | #91 | 4,775 |
| 2005 | #2,204 | 83 | #98 | 4,438 |
| 2004 | #2,175 | 82 | #104 | 4,157 |
| 2003 | #2,393 | 69 | #113 | 3,629 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #153 | 2,601 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 | #195 | 1,878 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | #240 | 1,406 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #288 | 1,002 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #463 | 486 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #571 | 326 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #633 | 268 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #729 | 215 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #732 | 206 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #936 | 132 |
| 1992 | — | #871 | 147 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,895 | 41 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,488 | 27 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,079 | 17 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Caden! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1985, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Caden is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#156 · 1 in 834
- Nebraska#271 · 1 in 2,064
- Minnesota#332 · 1 in 4,331
- Kansas#373 · 1 in 3,194
- Oklahoma#405 · 1 in 3,389
Best ever in a state: #32 in Wyoming, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #156 | 20 | 1 in 834 |
| Nebraska | #271 | 5 | 1 in 2,064 |
| Minnesota | #332 | 7 | 1 in 4,331 |
| Kansas | #373 | 5 | 1 in 3,194 |
| Oklahoma | #405 | 6 | 1 in 3,389 |
| Tennessee | #503 | 6 | 1 in 5,862 |
| Louisiana | #505 | 8 | 1 in 3,813 |
| Indiana | #571 | 5 | 1 in 7,838 |
| Ohio | #735 | 6 | 1 in 12,830 |
| Texas | #755 | 16 | 1 in 9,578 |
| Illinois | #948 | 6 | 1 in 14,370 |
| California | #1,602 | 8 | 1 in 35,541 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Caden
- 10 spots since 2024 (#211 → #201)
- 41 spots since 2020 (#242 → #201)
- 9 spots since 2015 (#192 → #201)
- Biggest jump: 1,024 spots in 1992 (#1,895 → #871)
- Biggest drop: 65 spots in 1993 (#871 → #936)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2006 at #91 (4,775 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 4 yrs · run 2005–2008
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1992–2025
- Highest: 1 in 411 boys born in 2007 were named Caden (0.24%)
- Latest: 1 in 981 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
- Its best rank, #91 in 2006, was only 1 in 430 (0.23%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 51.0% of all boys named Caden (36,737) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 90 | #3,079 (1988) | #4,831 |
| 1990s | 2,850 | #288 (1999) | #961 |
| 2000s | 36,737 | #91 (2006) | #129 |
| 2010s | 22,376 | #119 (2010) | #189 |
| 2020s | 9,987 | #198 (2023) | #218 |
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.
Caden in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
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1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 13,588 of them was named Caden, which outranked 91.1% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).