Kaiden vs Kaidin
American parents have registered 54,156 Kaidens since 1880, against 429 Kaidins. Kaiden is still ahead, with 1,488 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kaiden Kaidin
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 2000, when Kaiden had 213 and Kaidin had 12.
Side by side
| Kaiden | Kaidin | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 54,156 | 429 |
| Most in one year | 3,352 | 34 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,488 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 54,000 | 420 |
| Median age today | 10 | 16 |
| Peak year | 2014 | 2008 |
| Best rank | 124th boys | 3,286th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 237th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1992 | 2000 |
| Girls / boys | 1,594 / 52,562 | 11 / 418 |
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 Kaidins alive today are over 16; half the Kaidens are over 10. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kaiden and Kaidin.