Caydon
Masculine
Caydon belongs to a rhyme family rather than to a name: it was assembled from a front syllable and an ending that between them produced several hundred American names in about fifteen years. The word its front approaches has produced three English nouns that nobody connects.
How old is the name Caydon?
Caydon first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Caydon alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 700 people named Caydon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Caydon most popular?
Caydon peaked in 2006, reaching #2221 nationally. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Caydon
A cadet, a caddie and a cad are the same word. The Gascon capdet meant a chief or a captain, and it came into French as cadet meaning a younger son — younger sons of the nobility being the ones who went into the army, which is how the word became a term for a junior officer in training. Scots borrowed it as cawdy or caddie for a errand-boy or porter, which is why the man carrying golf clubs is one. And English shortened it to cad, first for an omnibus conductor or an odd-job man, and then, in the hands of nineteenth-century public schoolboys describing anybody not of their sort, into a term for a man who behaves badly. One word for a second son produced a military rank, a golf job and an insult about manners.
Meaningnot established
Not established
There is no etymology, and saying so is more useful than the alternatives. The family it belongs to formed in the nineteen-nineties out of a front and a very productive ending, and neither piece was ever a word.
Pronouncing Caydon
KAY-dun
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The second syllable is unstressed and therefore completely free, which is why this family has a dozen spellings of it.
Nicknames for Caydon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 200657 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2221reached in 2006
- Change vs 2022
- −56.3%7 in 2024, from 16
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Caydons among us
people named Caydon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Caydon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves detach as short forms and each is a standing name.
- Two syllables with front stress is the plainest shape English has.
- The sound is entirely familiar, so nobody has to be taught it.
- Caden, Kayden, Caiden and a dozen others are all in the record and all will be written for it.
- The spelling has to be given aloud every single time.
- It has no meaning, and the glosses circulating for the family are invented.
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Caydon
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Frequently asked
- How many Caydons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Caydon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Caydon in 2025?
- Caydon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Caydon with classmates?
- Caydon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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