Kaydon
Masculine
Kaydon is given to both — 1,416 boys and 80 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Kaydon belongs to the enormous -den and -don family of recent American naming — Aiden, Jayden, Brayden, Kayden — and it is one of the later arrivals. It is read correctly at a glance, which is the point.
How old is the name Kaydon?
Kaydon first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Kaydon alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,400 people named Kaydon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaydon most popular?
Kaydon peaked in 2014, reaching #1597 nationally. Today it ranks #3314, 1,717 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaydon
Ours, offered as ours. This whole family of names descends from a single real one. Aidan is Irish, a diminutive of the word for fire, and when it became popular in America in the 1990s it did something unusual: instead of spawning spelling variants, it spawned rhymes. Jayden, Brayden, Kayden, Hayden and Kaydon are not versions of Aidan — they are new names built to sound like it. One Irish name generated a whole rhyme family, and Kaydon is one of its later members.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language is established. The construction is documented: a Kay- opening that produced Kayla, Kaylee and Kayden, and a -don ending shared with Braydon, Jaydon and Haydon in the same decades. The rhyme family began with Aidan, a genuine Irish name meaning little fire.
Pronouncing Kaydon
KAY-den
Two syllables, first stressed. Kaydon and Kayden sound the same.
Nicknames for Kaydon
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
- 1994
- Most boys named
- 201498 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1597reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- +12.9%35 in 2025, from 31
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.
Kaydon in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Ohio.
Kaydons among us
people named Kaydon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 48,802 born in 2025 was named Kaydon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaydon
- #3314
- Kaydon on the 2025 chart
- #882
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaydon went to 35 boys in 2025, but Kaidon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 46, which makes it the 882nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,432 places above the chart.
- Kaydon35
- Kaidon11
About 1 boy in 37,132 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 48,802 for Kaydon 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 Radames test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaydon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Radames climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Radames's path sketches the road Kaydon is walking now.
Kaydon 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
Where Kaydon is headed
Kaydon should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kaydon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaydon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Don is a complete short form with genuine mid-century history.
- It sits comfortably among a very familiar set of names.
- Kayden, Caden, Kaiden and Kaydon are all in use and this is not the most written.
- The sound is extremely common in his year group even where the spelling is not.
- There is no documented meaning, only a rhyme family.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaydons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Kaydon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaydon?
- Kaydon is the most-used spelling in US records — 35 of the 46 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kaidon.
- How popular is the name Kaydon in 2025?
- Kaydon ranks #3314 among US boy names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaydon?
- About 1 in every 48,802 US boys born in 2025 was named Kaydon — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaydon with classmates?
- Kaydon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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