Kayden
#2,933 for girls in 2025, 57 births · #135 for boys in 2025, 2,678 births
Given to boys 90.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 4,742 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 8 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 73,606since 1989
Kayden over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | #2,933 | 57 | #135 | 2,678 |
| 2024 | #2,722 | 63 | #125 | 2,895 |
| 2023 | #2,442 | 73 | #114 | 3,135 |
| 2022 | #2,193 | 86 | #106 | 3,483 |
| 2021 | #1,991 | 97 | #108 | 3,584 |
| 2020 | #1,728 | 116 | #99 | 3,650 |
| 2019 | #1,679 | 125 | #97 | 3,926 |
| 2018 | #1,435 | 154 | #97 | 4,004 |
| 2017 | #1,160 | 212 | #98 | 4,014 |
| 2016 | #1,039 | 254 | #101 | 4,040 |
| 2015 | #879 | 316 | #95 | 4,263 |
| 2014 | #713 | 394 | #90 | 4,742 |
| 2013 | #761 | 357 | #93 | 4,438 |
| 2012 | #586 | 497 | #97 | 3,884 |
| 2011 | #530 | 547 | #105 | 3,746 |
| 2010 | #481 | 627 | #123 | 3,304 |
| 2009 | #441 | 715 | #138 | 2,964 |
| 2008 | #392 | 824 | #152 | 2,596 |
| 2007 | #509 | 627 | #186 | 2,195 |
| 2006 | #623 | 466 | #230 | 1,570 |
| 2005 | #624 | 450 | #256 | 1,298 |
| 2004 | #742 | 354 | #317 | 974 |
| 2003 | #930 | 253 | #366 | 725 |
| 2002 | #1,303 | 150 | #502 | 454 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 | #658 | 278 |
| 2000 | #2,508 | 60 | #780 | 212 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | #996 | 141 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #1,205 | 102 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #1,423 | 76 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #1,533 | 65 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | #1,736 | 51 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #2,219 | 36 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kayden! It came in at #6,941, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Kayden is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#34 · 1 in 165
- Louisiana#48 · 1 in 209
- Delaware#50 · 1 in 166
- South Carolina#57 · 1 in 220
- Alabama#58 · 1 in 239
Best ever in a state: #23 in Mississippi, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #34 | 84 | 1 in 165 |
| Louisiana | #48 | 122 | 1 in 209 |
| Delaware | #50 | 21 | 1 in 166 |
| South Carolina | #57 | 98 | 1 in 220 |
| Alabama | #58 | 97 | 1 in 239 |
| Georgia | #58 | 225 | 1 in 244 |
| Tennessee | #65 | 145 | 1 in 252 |
| Florida | #68 | 328 | 1 in 300 |
| North Carolina | #69 | 186 | 1 in 280 |
| Kentucky | #72 | 83 | 1 in 265 |
| Connecticut | #73 | 54 | 1 in 267 |
| Arkansas | #74 | 51 | 1 in 287 |
| Hawaii | #84 | 16 | 1 in 281 |
| New York | #84 | 268 | 1 in 384 |
| Virginia | #86 | 122 | 1 in 348 |
| Rhode Island | #87 | 14 | 1 in 274 |
| Missouri | #88 | 93 | 1 in 340 |
| Pennsylvania | #88 | 165 | 1 in 363 |
| Oklahoma | #89 | 60 | 1 in 346 |
| Illinois | #91 | 173 | 1 in 384 |
| New Jersey | #91 | 106 | 1 in 392 |
| Michigan | #95 | 130 | 1 in 367 |
| Maryland | #98 | 69 | 1 in 403 |
| West Virginia | #98 | 25 | 1 in 327 |
| Nevada | #99 | 37 | 1 in 367 |
| Massachusetts | #100 | 73 | 1 in 405 |
| Indiana | #101 | 93 | 1 in 389 |
| Maine | #101 | 15 | 1 in 310 |
| Ohio | #106 | 151 | 1 in 399 |
| Wyoming | #109 | 7 | 1 in 288 |
| Kansas | #115 | 38 | 1 in 417 |
| North Dakota | #118 | 12 | 1 in 355 |
| District of Columbia | #122 | 11 | 1 in 398 |
| Iowa | #122 | 35 | 1 in 451 |
| Idaho | #123 | 19 | 1 in 419 |
| New Hampshire | #130 | 10 | 1 in 459 |
| Arizona | #131 | 76 | 1 in 486 |
| Texas | #131 | 323 | 1 in 582 |
| Wisconsin | #132 | 55 | 1 in 495 |
| Nebraska | #140 | 21 | 1 in 481 |
| Washington | #144 | 61 | 1 in 603 |
| South Dakota | #147 | 10 | 1 in 419 |
| Alaska | #149 | 8 | 1 in 427 |
| Montana | #160 | 8 | 1 in 503 |
| California | #161 | 319 | 1 in 709 |
| Colorado | #162 | 45 | 1 in 615 |
| Minnesota | #185 | 38 | 1 in 747 |
| Oregon | #189 | 25 | 1 in 725 |
| Utah | #228 | 24 | 1 in 886 |
| New Mexico | #234 | 10 | 1 in 886 |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
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 Kayden
- 10 spots since 2024 (#125 → #135)
- 36 spots since 2020 (#99 → #135)
- 40 spots since 2015 (#95 → #135)
- Biggest jump: 216 spots in 2000 (#996 → #780)
- Biggest drop: 11 spots in 2024 (#114 → #125)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2014 at #90 (4,742 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 8 yrs · run 2012–2015
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 405 boys born in 2014 were named Kayden (0.25%)
- Latest: 1 in 638 boys born in 2025 (0.16%)
- 54.8% of all boys named Kayden (40,361) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #6,941 (1989) | #6,941 |
| 1990s | 548 | #996 (1999) | #2,409 |
| 2000s | 13,266 | #138 (2009) | #359 |
| 2010s | 40,361 | #90 (2014) | #100 |
| 2020s | 19,425 | #99 (2020) | #115 |
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.
Kayden in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 5,649 of them was named Kayden, which outranked 95.4% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 450 of them was named Kayden, which outranked 99.3% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.