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Caden vs Cadyn

American parents have registered 72,993 Cadens since 1880, against 1,469 Cadyns. Caden is still ahead, with 1,752 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caden against Cadyn, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caden Cadyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Caden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Caden had 138 and Cadyn had 6.

Side by side

  Caden Cadyn
Total US births 72,9931,469
Most in one year 5,122142
Babies in 2025 1,75214
Estimated living today 72,0001,500
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 92nd boys1,639th boys
Rank in 2025 201st6,143rd
First recorded 19791993
Girls / boys 948 / 72,045407 / 1,062

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Caden Cadyn
England and Wales 2,13714

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Caden and Cadyn.