Kaydan
Masculine
Kaydan is given to both — 733 boys and 134 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Kaydan is one of at least eight spellings of a sound that arrived in American naming in the 1990s with no original behind it.
How old is the name Kaydan?
Kaydan first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Kaydan is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Kaydan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaydan most popular?
Kaydan peaked in 2011, reaching #2478 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 1,771 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaydan
Ours, offered as ours. This family has an interesting property: because none of the spellings is older than the others, none can be called correct, and a family choosing Kaydan is not varying from anything. That is genuinely rare. Almost all spelling variation in naming is deviation from an inherited form; here the deviation arrived first and the tradition has simply carried on producing new versions of a sound that was never anchored.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language is established. Attributions to Irish Mac Cadáin and to Welsh Cadan circulate without support. What is documented is the date: the sound appears in American records from the early 1990s and fragmented into spellings immediately.
Pronouncing Kaydan
KAY-den
Two syllables, first stressed. Every spelling of the sound is said the same.
Nicknames for Kaydan
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
- 2001
- Most boys named
- 201150 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2478reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- +50.0%24 in 2025, 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.
Kaydan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Caden in English — spelling variant
- Kaiden in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Kaydans among us
people named Kaydan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Kaydan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaydan
- #4249
- Kaydan on the 2025 chart
- #883
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaydan went to 24 boys in 2025, but Kaidan and Caidan are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 45, which makes it the 883rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,366 places above the chart.
- Kaydan24
- Kaidan15
- Caidan6
About 1 boy in 37,957 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 71,170 for Kaydan itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Joaquim test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaydan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Joaquim climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Joaquim's path sketches the road Kaydan is walking now.
Kaydan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Kaydan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaydan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kade and Dan are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- There are at least eight live spellings and he will recite his for life.
- Caden and Kaden are both far more common.
- There is no documented meaning.
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Masculine · #4249 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kaydans 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 Kaydan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaydan?
- Kaydan is the most-used spelling in US records — 24 of the 45 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kaidan and Caidan.
- How popular is the name Kaydan in 2025?
- Kaydan ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaydan?
- About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Kaydan — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaydan with classmates?
- Kaydan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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