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Kadarius vs Kadyn

American parents have registered 4,732 Kadyns since 1880, against 1,096 Kadariuses. Kadyn is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kadarius against Kadyn, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kadarius Kadyn

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 37 years in which either name was published, Kadyn for 26 years and Kadarius for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kadarius Kadyn
Total US births 1,0964,732
Most in one year 63372
Babies in 2025 1446
Estimated living today 1,1004,700
Median age today 2316
Peak year 19952009
Best rank 1,508th boys833rd boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rd2,991st
First recorded 19891993
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0961,434 / 3,298

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 Kadariuses alive today are over 23; half the Kadyns are over 16. That is 7 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.

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