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Kaiden vs Kaiser

American parents have registered 54,156 Kaidens since 1880, against 3,955 Kaisers. Kaiden is still ahead, with 1,488 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaiden Kaiser

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 63 years in which either name was published, Kaiden for 34 years and Kaiser for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kaiden Kaiser
Total US births 54,1563,955
Most in one year 3,352350
Babies in 2025 1,488296
Estimated living today 54,0003,800
Median age today 106
Peak year 20142022
Best rank 124th boys749th boys
Rank in 2025 237th835th
First recorded 19921915
Girls / boys 1,594 / 52,56234 / 3,921

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 Kaisers are over 6. That is 4 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 Kaiden Kaiser
England and Wales 5,873428
Scotland 9254
France 425 Kaïden20
Northern Ireland 3063
Ireland 2968

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: Kaiden and Kaiser.