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Kaiden vs Kaile

American parents have registered 54,156 Kaidens since 1880, against 721 Kailes. Kaiden is still ahead, with 1,488 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaiden Kaile

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 44 years in which either name was published, Kaiden for 31 years and Kaile for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kaiden Kaile
Total US births 54,156721
Most in one year 3,35247
Babies in 2025 1,488under 5
Estimated living today 54,000710
Median age today 1026
Peak year 20142003
Best rank 124th boys3,412th girls
Rank in 2025 237thunranked
First recorded 19921979
Girls / boys 1,594 / 52,562699 / 22

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 Kailes alive today are over 26; half the Kaidens are over 10. That is 16 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kaiden and Kaile.