# Kayden (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kayden/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Kaiden |
| US babies named this | 81,717 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 73,606 / 8,111 (10% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,571, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 547 | 531 |
| 2012 | 497 | 586 |
| 2013 | 357 | 762 |
| 2014 | 394 | 713 |
| 2015 | 316 | 879 |
| 2016 | 254 | 1,042 |
| 2017 | 212 | 1,161 |
| 2018 | 154 | 1,438 |
| 2019 | 125 | 1,679 |
| 2020 | 116 | 1,734 |
| 2021 | 97 | 1,999 |
| 2022 | 86 | 2,200 |
| 2023 | 73 | 2,456 |
| 2024 | 63 | 2,736 |
| 2025 | 57 | 2,946 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,746 | 105 |
| 2012 | 3,884 | 97 |
| 2013 | 4,438 | 93 |
| 2014 | 4,742 | 90 |
| 2015 | 4,263 | 95 |
| 2016 | 4,040 | 101 |
| 2017 | 4,014 | 98 |
| 2018 | 4,004 | 97 |
| 2019 | 3,926 | 97 |
| 2020 | 3,650 | 99 |
| 2021 | 3,584 | 108 |
| 2022 | 3,483 | 106 |
| 2023 | 3,135 | 114 |
| 2024 | 2,895 | 125 |
| 2025 | 2,678 | 135 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | 2,802 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 11 | 2,085 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2009 | 6 | 3,422 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 686 | 94 |
| 2012 | 678 | 92 |
| 2013 | 606 | 104 |
| 2014 | 537 | 114 |
| 2015 | 439 | 134 |
| 2016 | 422 | 140 |
| 2017 | 389 | 149 |
| 2018 | 343 | 165 |
| 2019 | 350 | 156 |
| 2020 | 318 | 166 |
| 2021 | 289 | 188 |
| 2022 | 247 | 206 |
| 2023 | 235 | 208 |
| 2024 | 191 | 250 |
| 2025 | 226 | 220 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.