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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Cayden is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#170 · 1 in 797
- Indiana#648 · 1 in 7,461
- Texas#1,144 · 1 in 17,452
- Florida#1,163 · 1 in 17,176
- California#1,831 · 1 in 40,931
Best ever in a state: #53 in Mississippi, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #170 | 24 | 1 in 797 |
| Indiana | #648 | 5 | 1 in 7,461 |
| Texas | #1,144 | 9 | 1 in 17,452 |
| Florida | #1,163 | 5 | 1 in 17,176 |
| California | #1,831 | 6 | 1 in 40,931 |
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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 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 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 18,851 of them was named Cayden, which outranked 89.0% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,182Monte101
- #1,182Rusty101
- #1,182Shay101
- #1,190Cayden100
- #1,190Blaze100
- #1,190Claudio100
- #1,190Garry100
- #1,198Benton99
- #1,198Damarcus99
- #1,198Greg99
Tied with 7 names at #1,190; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.