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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#26 · 1 in 158
- Alabama#45 · 1 in 213
- South Carolina#48 · 1 in 211
- Georgia#48 · 1 in 239
- Hawaii#55 · 1 in 213
Best ever in a state: #23 in Mississippi, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #26 | 82 | 1 in 158 |
| Alabama | #45 | 106 | 1 in 213 |
| Georgia | #48 | 218 | 1 in 239 |
| South Carolina | #48 | 99 | 1 in 211 |
| Hawaii | #55 | 18 | 1 in 213 |
| Florida | #56 | 339 | 1 in 283 |
| Louisiana | #57 | 89 | 1 in 257 |
| North Carolina | #67 | 182 | 1 in 276 |
| Tennessee | #72 | 123 | 1 in 289 |
| Kentucky | #74 | 73 | 1 in 287 |
| Rhode Island | #75 | 17 | 1 in 207 |
| Arkansas | #76 | 46 | 1 in 294 |
| Nevada | #79 | 41 | 1 in 321 |
| New York | #82 | 258 | 1 in 371 |
| Connecticut | #84 | 44 | 1 in 315 |
| Maryland | #84 | 79 | 1 in 334 |
| Missouri | #88 | 89 | 1 in 341 |
| Delaware | #90 | 12 | 1 in 268 |
| Wisconsin | #91 | 75 | 1 in 343 |
| New Jersey | #98 | 102 | 1 in 394 |
| Michigan | #101 | 120 | 1 in 382 |
| Pennsylvania | #101 | 146 | 1 in 392 |
| District of Columbia | #103 | 12 | 1 in 329 |
| Massachusetts | #103 | 72 | 1 in 393 |
| Virginia | #103 | 98 | 1 in 416 |
| Indiana | #104 | 84 | 1 in 404 |
| Ohio | #107 | 138 | 1 in 415 |
| West Virginia | #107 | 21 | 1 in 360 |
| Oklahoma | #108 | 46 | 1 in 409 |
| Illinois | #114 | 124 | 1 in 481 |
| New Mexico | #117 | 19 | 1 in 402 |
| Iowa | #119 | 34 | 1 in 422 |
| Texas | #124 | 328 | 1 in 533 |
| Nebraska | #131 | 20 | 1 in 471 |
| Arizona | #140 | 64 | 1 in 534 |
| California | #140 | 336 | 1 in 615 |
| New Hampshire | #140 | 9 | 1 in 473 |
| Oregon | #154 | 30 | 1 in 554 |
| Utah | #170 | 31 | 1 in 629 |
| Alaska | #171 | 6 | 1 in 490 |
| Maine | #175 | 7 | 1 in 605 |
| North Dakota | #178 | 7 | 1 in 556 |
| Kansas | #187 | 21 | 1 in 692 |
| Colorado | #188 | 35 | 1 in 737 |
| Washington | #189 | 46 | 1 in 750 |
| Minnesota | #209 | 32 | 1 in 833 |
| South Dakota | #215 | 6 | 1 in 632 |
| Idaho | #253 | 9 | 1 in 863 |
| Montana | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
| Wyoming | — | — | — |
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 11,046 of them was named Kayden, which outranked 92.1% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,425Kaleah155
- #1,425Kyrie155
- #1,425Zaina155
- #1,435Kayden154
- #1,435Inaya154
- #1,435Janice154
- #1,435Kailynn154
- #1,442Adilyn153
- #1,442Annabeth153
- #1,442Colbie153
Tied with 6 names at #1,435; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 454 of them was named Kayden, which outranked 99.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.