Kaiden

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 2,843 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
2,843
the US, 2017
Rarity
Common
among names in use
US popularity
#237
down from #207
UK popularity
#396
103 babies · unchanged

How Kaiden has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#117#188#258201520202025#237

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#140
2016#144
2017#141
2018#138
2019#145
2020#139
2021#163
2022#167
2023#170
2024#207
2025#237

Kaiden by the numbers

In 2025, 103 babies in England and Wales were named Kaiden. In the US, 2,843 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 3,260 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Kaiden

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 Kaiden. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kaisenocean battle; sea warfare136 in the US (2017)
  • Kaizencontinuous improvement, change for the better23 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kaidansmall battle; a form of Kaden52 in the US (2017)
  • Kaidinsmall battle; form of Kaden10 in the US (2017)
  • Kayden4,179 in the US (2017)
  • Kaden1,851 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kaiden

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

  • Caidynbattle; a modern respelling of Caden43 in the US (2017)
  • Cadynbattle; a form of Caden32 in the US (2017)
  • Caden1,715 in the US (2017)
  • Cayden1,565 in the US (2017)
  • Caiden1,053 in the US (2017)
  • Kaidyn142 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kaiden

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