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Kaida vs Kaiden

American parents have registered 54,156 Kaidens since 1880, against 704 Kaidas. Kaiden is still ahead, with 1,488 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaida against Kaiden, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaida Kaiden

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

Kaiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Kaida had 77 and Kaiden had 1,733.

Side by side

  Kaida Kaiden
Total US births 70454,156
Most in one year 773,352
Babies in 2025 511,488
Estimated living today 70054,000
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20242014
Best rank 2,533rd girls124th boys
Rank in 2025 3,342nd237th
First recorded 20021992
Girls / boys 692 / 121,594 / 52,562

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 Kaida Kaiden
England and Wales 335,873

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: Kaida and Kaiden.