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Boy's name · #135 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
98% boys · 2% girls — Kayden is also given to girls: 57 in 2025, about 1 in 45 in recent years. Kayden →
Kayden reached #90 in 2014 and has eased to #135 since. About 74,000 boys have carried it since 1989.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#58 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #66 in France (2025) · #132 in New Zealand (2025) · #141 in Scotland (2025) · #167 in Ireland (2025) · #181 in N. Ireland (2025) · #221 in England & Wales (2025) · #316 in Belgium (2025) · #380 in Ecuador (2025) · #412 in Switzerland (2025) · #559 in Sweden (2025) · #587 in Netherlands (2025) and 2 more.
Among 23 notable people named Kayden:
Sports figures appear 3.3× more often than among typical names — e.g. Kayden Jackson, British footballer (born 1994).
A popular twin pairing with Kayden is Jayden for a boy.
Together with its spelling variants Caden (#201), Kaiden (#237), and Kaden (#328), Kayden would rank around #34 with about 6,900 births last year — the newborns split about 39/25/21/15 across Kayden, Caden, Kaiden, and Kaden.
Similar names: Kaiden · Sawyer · Camden · Jett · Jaiden · Jaylen
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