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Kaiden vs Kaison

American parents have registered 54,156 Kaidens since 1880, against 7,198 Kaisons. Kaiden is still ahead, with 1,488 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaiden Kaison

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 36 years in which either name was published, Kaiden for 34 years and Kaison for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kaiden Kaison
Total US births 54,1567,198
Most in one year 3,352655
Babies in 2025 1,488562
Estimated living today 54,0007,100
Median age today 105
Peak year 20142020
Best rank 124th boys454th boys
Rank in 2025 237th539th
First recorded 19921989
Girls / boys 1,594 / 52,56216 / 7,182

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 Kaisons are over 5. That is 5 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 Kaison
England and Wales 5,873439
Scotland 92529
France 425 Kaïden5
Northern Ireland 3066
Ireland 29614

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 Kaison.