Fun Facts About the Name Kadin
- More than 5 thousand babies named Kadin: U.S. records list 5,252 babies given the name Kadin from 1880 through 2025. Even 179 girls received the name Kadin - about 1 girl for every 28 boys.
What Does the Name Kadin Mean?
Kadin is an English spelling of an Irish name usually written Cadán and, in the English-speaking world, more often as Caden or Kaden. Cadán is a diminutive: the Irish ending -án is added to a first element commonly explained as cad, "battle," so the name is often rendered "little battle" or, more loosely, "battle" or "fighter." A competing explanation ties the first element to Irish cath, also "battle," which is the root of the separate name Cathán. Because Cadán and Cathán look and sound alike, the two are often merged in popular accounts, and the precise origin of Cadán is not settled; both explanations agree that the core sense is martial.
The Turkish word kadın means "woman" or "lady" and was used in the Ottoman court as a title for a sultan's consorts. It is a separate word from the Gaelic-derived English name, and the shared spelling does not indicate a shared origin.
Kadin Name History & Origins
Cadán belongs to the older layer of Irish personal names, the type that also produced hereditary surnames. Mac Cadáin, "son of Cadán," and Ó Cadáin are Irish family names. Names ending in -án are common in Irish naming, formed as diminutive or affectionate versions of a base name, and the Irish Cadán is stressed and pronounced differently from the English Kadin, with -án sounded as its own syllable.
The spelling Kadin is one of several English forms - alongside Caden, Kaden, Caiden, and Kayden - that became common in the United States and other English-speaking countries in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These spellings reflect English respelling of the Gaelic name, and some may instead be new combinations of familiar sounds built on the fashionable -aden pattern rather than direct continuations of the Irish name. Kadin is not a traditional Gaelic spelling: English uses c and k for the same initial sound and lengthens the a to the vowel heard in KAY-din.
How Popular is the Name Kadin?
Kadin recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2004. Its best rank was #499 in 2004.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | #15,504 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #14,191 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2011 | #18,100 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #10,101 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #11,050 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #6,928 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2007 | #7,897 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2006 | #7,664 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2005 | #5,176 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2004 | #4,995 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2003 | #6,738 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2002 | #11,607 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2001 | #11,488 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1994 | #14,444 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,994 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2024 | #3,181 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 2023 | #4,163 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2022 | #4,500 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2021 | #4,551 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2020 | #3,763 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2019 | #3,389 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2018 | #2,595 | 49 | 0.0027% |
| 2017 | #2,509 | 51 | 0.0028% |
| 2016 | #2,534 | 50 | 0.0026% |
| 2015 | #2,095 | 67 | 0.0035% |
| 2014 | #1,583 | 100 | 0.0052% |
| 2013 | #1,421 | 117 | 0.0062% |
| 2012 | #1,209 | 148 | 0.0078% |
| 2011 | #1,103 | 168 | 0.0088% |
| 2010 | #986 | 200 | 0.0104% |
| 2009 | #840 | 257 | 0.0130% |
| 2008 | #725 | 319 | 0.0156% |
| 2007 | #667 | 360 | 0.0173% |
| 2006 | #641 | 363 | 0.0177% |
| 2005 | #567 | 413 | 0.0207% |
| 2004 | #499 | 490 | 0.0247% |
| 2003 | #520 | 461 | 0.0233% |
| 2002 | #621 | 318 | 0.0164% |
| 2001 | #706 | 252 | 0.0130% |
| 2000 | #856 | 187 | 0.0095% |
| 1999 | #977 | 147 | 0.0077% |
| 1998 | #1,232 | 99 | 0.0052% |
| 1997 | #1,491 | 71 | 0.0038% |
| 1996 | #1,774 | 52 | 0.0027% |
| 1995 | #2,591 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 1994 | #3,275 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1993 | #3,436 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 1992 | #7,046 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #4,621 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1990 | #5,592 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1989 | #6,575 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #6,840 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #6,530 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #7,267 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #4,928 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1984 | #5,260 | 7 | 0.0004% |
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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