Caden

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 1,715 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
1,715
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#201
up from #211
UK popularity
#745
46 babies

How Caden has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#170#221#271201520202025#201

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YearUS rank
2015#192
2016#202
2017#223
2018#237
2019#249
2020#242
2021#230
2022#223
2023#198
2024#211
2025#201

Caden by the numbers

In 2025, 46 babies in England and Wales were named Caden. In the US, 1,715 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 5,048 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Caden

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Caden. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Camdenenclosed valley2,786 in the US (2017)
  • Caderound barrel or lump of clay693 in the US (2017)
  • Cadynbattle; a form of Caden32 in the US (2017)
  • Cardenfrom the garden; a place name27 in the US (2017)
  • Cadelbattle or warrior5 in the US (2017)
  • Cayden1,565 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Caden

Names that are said the same way as Caden, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kaidansmall battle; a form of Kaden52 in the US (2017)
  • Caidynbattle; a modern respelling of Caden43 in the US (2017)
  • Kaidinsmall battle; form of Kaden10 in the US (2017)
  • Kayden4,179 in the US (2017)
  • Kaiden2,843 in the US (2017)
  • Kaden1,851 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Caden

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