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Kaeden vs Kaedyn

American parents have registered 5,258 Kaedens since 1880, against 2,220 Kaedyns. Kaeden is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaeden Kaedyn

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

Kaeden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kaeden had 48 and Kaedyn had 34.

Side by side

  Kaeden Kaedyn
Total US births 5,2582,220
Most in one year 377157
Babies in 2025 4834
Estimated living today 5,2002,200
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20082009
Best rank 668th boys1,518th boys
Rank in 2025 2,676th4,050th
First recorded 19941999
Girls / boys 158 / 5,100680 / 1,540

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 Kaedens alive today are over 15; half the Kaedyns are over 13. That is 2 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 Kaeden Kaedyn
England and Wales 27724

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: Kaeden and Kaedyn.