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Caeden vs Caeli

American parents have registered 2,210 Caedens since 1880, against 1,251 Caelis. But in 2025 it was Caeli that was commoner, 90 babies to 30.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caeden against Caeli, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caeden Caeli

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 40 years in which either name was published, Caeli for 20 years and Caeden for 20 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Caeden Caeli
Total US births 2,2101,251
Most in one year 157148
Babies in 2025 3090
Estimated living today 2,2001,200
Median age today 167
Peak year 20092023
Best rank 1,202nd boys1,474th girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th2,076th
First recorded 19941974
Girls / boys 29 / 2,1811,251 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Caedens alive today are over 16; half the Caelis are over 7. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Caeden Caeli
England and Wales 1293

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Caeden and Caeli.