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Kaden vs Kadon

American parents have registered 70,701 Kadens since 1880, against 720 Kadons. Kaden is still ahead, with 1,040 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaden against Kadon, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaden Kadon

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

Kaden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Kaden had 408 and Kadon had 9.

Side by side

  Kaden Kadon
Total US births 70,701720
Most in one year 4,84954
Babies in 2025 1,04011
Estimated living today 70,000710
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20062005
Best rank 92nd boys2,206th boys
Rank in 2025 328th7,194th
First recorded 19771995
Girls / boys 1,106 / 69,5950 / 720

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 Kaden Kadon
England and Wales 2,36616

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: Kaden and Kadon.