Fun Facts About the Name Caiden
- More than 23 thousand babies named Caiden: U.S. records list 23,855 babies given the name Caiden from 1880 through 2025. Even 521 girls received the name Caiden - about 1 girl for every 45 boys.
What Does the Name Caiden Mean?
Caiden is a modern spelling of Caden, an English given name of Irish origin. Caden is usually traced to the Irish surname Mac Cadáin, meaning "son of Cadán," from mac ("son") and the personal name Cadán. Cadán is a Gaelic name built with the diminutive ending -án on a root generally explained as "battle," which gives the sense "little battle" or "battler." The literal meaning of the surname is "son of Cadán"; the battle sense belongs to the personal name Cadán itself. Since Caiden can reflect either the surname or the personal name behind it, its meaning is given sometimes as "son of Cadán" and sometimes as "little battle."
Caiden Name History & Origins
Cadán was used as a personal name in Gaelic Ireland, and the patronymic surname Mac Cadáin ("son of Cadán") is recorded in anglicized forms such as Cadden and Caden. The given name Caden, along with respellings like Caiden, belongs to a much later period and came into wide use in the United States and other English-speaking countries in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Caiden sits among a group of two-syllable names ending in -den, including Kaden, Kaiden, Kayden, and Cayden, which in turn resemble Aiden, Brayden, Jayden, and Hayden. The shared sounds are a matter of naming fashion rather than common origin; these names come from different sources.
The Cai- spelling belongs to this modern given-name style rather than to older Irish surname records, where forms such as Caden and Cadden appear. In other words, the surname tradition preserves the Gaelic personal name Cadán, while the Caiden spelling reflects the recent preference for the -aiden pattern in English-speaking countries.
How Popular is the Name Caiden?
Caiden recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2008. Its best rank was #250 in 2008.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | #15,668 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #12,377 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #15,727 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #11,309 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2020 | #8,056 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2019 | #9,232 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #7,835 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #7,520 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2016 | #5,651 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2015 | #7,344 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2014 | #6,501 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2013 | #5,347 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2012 | #5,582 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2011 | #5,766 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2010 | #4,763 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2009 | #4,031 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2008 | #3,790 | 42 | 0.0022% |
| 2007 | #3,492 | 47 | 0.0024% |
| 2006 | #5,110 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2005 | #3,598 | 41 | 0.0022% |
| 2004 | #4,619 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2003 | #4,971 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2002 | #7,112 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2001 | #8,868 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #9,709 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #602 | 475 | 0.0278% |
| 2024 | #544 | 544 | 0.0317% |
| 2023 | #495 | 608 | 0.0356% |
| 2022 | #436 | 711 | 0.0408% |
| 2021 | #420 | 735 | 0.0420% |
| 2020 | #383 | 800 | 0.0464% |
| 2019 | #354 | 931 | 0.0519% |
| 2018 | #348 | 948 | 0.0522% |
| 2017 | #325 | 1,048 | 0.0566% |
| 2016 | #312 | 1,133 | 0.0597% |
| 2015 | #284 | 1,293 | 0.0675% |
| 2014 | #272 | 1,354 | 0.0705% |
| 2013 | #271 | 1,301 | 0.0688% |
| 2012 | #295 | 1,194 | 0.0630% |
| 2011 | #287 | 1,228 | 0.0647% |
| 2010 | #265 | 1,297 | 0.0676% |
| 2009 | #262 | 1,329 | 0.0670% |
| 2008 | #250 | 1,403 | 0.0688% |
| 2007 | #284 | 1,213 | 0.0585% |
| 2006 | #312 | 1,032 | 0.0502% |
| 2005 | #349 | 849 | 0.0425% |
| 2004 | #399 | 657 | 0.0331% |
| 2003 | #512 | 471 | 0.0238% |
| 2002 | #681 | 269 | 0.0139% |
| 2001 | #978 | 157 | 0.0081% |
| 2000 | #1,187 | 115 | 0.0059% |
| 1999 | #1,384 | 85 | 0.0044% |
| 1998 | #1,961 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 1997 | #2,552 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 1996 | #3,213 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1995 | #3,720 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1994 | #3,230 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1991 | #6,017 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #7,297 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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