Kayden

Origin: Modern coinage — Variant of Caden · created in the 1990s to sound like Aidan and Hayden

Girl's name · #2946 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

2% girls · 98% boys — About 98% of babies named Kayden in recent years have been boys. Kayden →

Popularity over time

Kayden's best rank, #393, came in 2008; it has stepped well back to #2946 today. Roughly 8,100 girls have been named Kayden since 1992.

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 6 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Among 23 notable people named Kayden:

Sports figures appear 3.3× more often than among typical names — e.g. Kayden Carter, American wrestler.

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