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Kaycie vs Kayden

American parents have registered 81,717 Kaydens since 1880, against 2,467 Kaycies. Kayden is still ahead, with 2,735 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaycie against Kayden, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaycie Kayden

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 53 years in which either name was published, Kayden for 31 years and Kaycie for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kaycie Kayden
Total US births 2,46781,717
Most in one year 865,136
Babies in 2025 372,735
Estimated living today 2,40081,000
Median age today 2410
Peak year 20002014
Best rank 1,952nd girls90th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd135th
First recorded 19651989
Girls / boys 2,462 / 58,111 / 73,606

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 Kaycies alive today are over 24; half the Kaydens are over 10. That is 14 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 Kaycie Kayden
England and Wales 3288,571
France 2405,640
Scotland 311,310

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: Kaycie and Kayden.