Boy · English (modern coinage)
Cayden
Say it: KAY-dun
Meaning
A spelling of Caden, a modern American coinage rhyming with Aidan; it has no established older meaning.
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
- 37,846 babies given this name since 1990
- At its height in 2009, about 1 in 721 boys
- 1,296 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Caden, Kaden, Kayden, 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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