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Kaiden vs Kaiori

American parents have registered 54,156 Kaidens since 1880, against 83 Kaioris. Kaiden is still ahead, with 1,488 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaiden against Kaiori, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaiden Kaiori

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

Kaiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kaiden had 1,488 and Kaiori had 24.

Side by side

  Kaiden Kaiori
Total US births 54,15683
Most in one year 3,35224
Babies in 2025 1,48824
Estimated living today 54,00080
Median age today 102
Peak year 20142025
Best rank 124th boys5,238th girls
Rank in 2025 237th5,238th
First recorded 19922021
Girls / boys 1,594 / 52,56278 / 5

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 Kaidens alive today are over 10; half the Kaioris are over 2. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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