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.
Where Cayden is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#80 · 1 in 298
- South Carolina#87 · 1 in 321
- Delaware#90 · 1 in 271
- Tennessee#93 · 1 in 359
- Georgia#93 · 1 in 381
Best ever in a state: #53 in Mississippi, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #80 | 75 | 1 in 298 |
| South Carolina | #87 | 66 | 1 in 321 |
| Delaware | #90 | 13 | 1 in 271 |
| Georgia | #93 | 141 | 1 in 381 |
| Tennessee | #93 | 99 | 1 in 359 |
| Mississippi | #96 | 38 | 1 in 355 |
| Alaska | #102 | 11 | 1 in 318 |
| Louisiana | #103 | 63 | 1 in 392 |
| Rhode Island | #113 | 10 | 1 in 388 |
| Florida | #114 | 180 | 1 in 519 |
| Indiana | #117 | 75 | 1 in 475 |
| North Carolina | #118 | 99 | 1 in 509 |
| Virginia | #118 | 83 | 1 in 503 |
| Wisconsin | #128 | 56 | 1 in 484 |
| New Hampshire | #131 | 10 | 1 in 487 |
| Kansas | #135 | 31 | 1 in 503 |
| Kentucky | #147 | 38 | 1 in 584 |
| West Virginia | #151 | 15 | 1 in 559 |
| Maryland | #160 | 39 | 1 in 705 |
| Illinois | #161 | 91 | 1 in 724 |
| Michigan | #164 | 68 | 1 in 706 |
| Oklahoma | #165 | 33 | 1 in 640 |
| Pennsylvania | #166 | 80 | 1 in 747 |
| Iowa | #169 | 23 | 1 in 664 |
| Connecticut | #170 | 19 | 1 in 753 |
| Arkansas | #172 | 22 | 1 in 648 |
| Massachusetts | #175 | 37 | 1 in 794 |
| New Jersey | #176 | 50 | 1 in 831 |
| Ohio | #179 | 76 | 1 in 785 |
| New York | #180 | 110 | 1 in 932 |
| Hawaii | #184 | 8 | 1 in 605 |
| Missouri | #191 | 41 | 1 in 775 |
| Nevada | #192 | 18 | 1 in 736 |
| Nebraska | #193 | 14 | 1 in 714 |
| Maine | #206 | 6 | 1 in 783 |
| Minnesota | #207 | 31 | 1 in 904 |
| Colorado | #220 | 31 | 1 in 865 |
| Texas | #223 | 182 | 1 in 990 |
| Arizona | #228 | 41 | 1 in 897 |
| South Dakota | #242 | 5 | 1 in 825 |
| Idaho | #253 | 9 | 1 in 887 |
| Washington | #260 | 33 | 1 in 1,081 |
| California | #261 | 178 | 1 in 1,275 |
| New Mexico | #277 | 8 | 1 in 1,153 |
| Oregon | #315 | 13 | 1 in 1,383 |
| Utah | #540 | 7 | 1 in 3,086 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 20,404 of them was named Cayden, which outranked 88.7% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,152Sinai87
- #2,152Tatyana87
- #2,152Teegan87
- #2,173Cayden86
- #2,173Avalee86
- #2,173Daria86
- #2,173Desire86
- #2,187Aaliya85
- #2,187Aminata85
- #2,187Avaya85
Tied with 13 names at #2,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 792 of them was named Cayden, which outranked 98.8% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.