Boy · English (modern coinage)
Caden
Say it: KAY-dun
Meaning
A modern American coinage, rhyming with Aidan and Braden; it is sometimes linked to the Irish surname Mac Cadáin, but most parents chose it for its sound.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Part of the 'rhymes with Aidan' wave of American boys' names in the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 64,372 babies given this name since 1979
- At its height in 2007, about 1 in 411 boys
- 1,484 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Kaden, Kayden, Cayden, Kaiden
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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