Kaydon
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 57 babies a year in the US.
Kaydon by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Kaydon. In the US, 57 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 98 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Kaydon
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
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Sounds like Kaydon
Names that are said the same way as Kaydon, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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