Kaden

What Kaden means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kaden yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 4,746 babies; 1,034 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kaden?

US: Falling: down from #179 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #523 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 4,746 boys got the name (#92 that year). First in the US records in 1977.

How common

• About 1 in 1,652 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,331 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (2.27 per 1,000 boys), ME (1.3 per 1,000 boys), MS (1.29 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Kaden is #328 in the US and #1197 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.4% of US babies named Kaden were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kayden2,678 US · 226 E&W
• Caden1,742 US · 46 E&W
• Kaiden1,476 US · 103 E&W
• Cayden774 US · 39 E&W
• Caiden475 US · 35 E&W
• Keyden88 US
• Kaidyn67 US
• Kaeden48 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kaden

Boys

• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Diego#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #444 in 2025

For a sister

• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Isabelle#166Variant of Elizabeth, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Gracie#227Editor’s note Down from #165 in 2015 to #227 in 2025 in the US
• Emma#3“entire”^*
• Juliana#256Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #256 vs #1,892 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kaden’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.