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Kaeden vs Kaelie

American parents have registered 5,258 Kaedens since 1880, against 749 Kaelies. Kaeden is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaeden Kaelie

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 40 years in which either name was published, Kaeden for 27 years and Kaelie for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kaeden Kaelie
Total US births 5,258749
Most in one year 37741
Babies in 2025 4813
Estimated living today 5,200740
Median age today 1521
Peak year 20081998
Best rank 668th boys3,068th girls
Rank in 2025 2,676th7,885th
First recorded 19941984
Girls / boys 158 / 5,100749 / 0

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 Kaelies alive today are over 21; half the Kaedens are over 15. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Kaeden Kaelie
England and Wales 2773
France 100 Kaëden75 Kaëlie

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 Kaelie.