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Kaeden vs Kaeleb

American parents have registered 5,258 Kaedens since 1880, against 635 Kaelebs. Kaeden is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaeden against Kaeleb, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaeden Kaeleb

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 32 years in which either name was published, Kaeden for 30 years and Kaeleb for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Kaeden Kaeleb
Total US births 5,258635
Most in one year 37741
Babies in 2025 48under 5
Estimated living today 5,200630
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 668th boys2,879th boys
Rank in 2025 2,676thunranked
First recorded 19941994
Girls / boys 158 / 5,1000 / 635

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kaeden Kaeleb
England and Wales 27721

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: Kaeden and Kaeleb.