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Caydence vs Caydon

American parents have registered 3,898 Caydences since 1880, against 666 Caydons. Caydence is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caydence against Caydon, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caydence Caydon

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

Of the 28 years in which either name was published, Caydence for 23 years and Caydon for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Caydence Caydon
Total US births 3,898666
Most in one year 31157
Babies in 2025 31under 5
Estimated living today 3,900660
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20092006
Best rank 904th girls2,221st boys
Rank in 2025 5,238thunranked
First recorded 20021998
Girls / boys 3,588 / 3100 / 666

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Caydons alive today are over 16; half the Caydences are over 14. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Caydence Caydon
England and Wales 3276

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: Caydence and Caydon.