Humanverse

Kayden vs Kaylanie

American parents have registered 81,717 Kaydens since 1880, against 762 Kaylanies. Kayden is still ahead, with 2,735 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kayden Kaylanie

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

Kayden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1989 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Kayden had 81 and Kaylanie had 5.

Side by side

  Kayden Kaylanie
Total US births 81,717762
Most in one year 5,13669
Babies in 2025 2,73552
Estimated living today 81,000760
Median age today 106
Peak year 20142023
Best rank 90th boys2,555th girls
Rank in 2025 135th3,100th
First recorded 19891996
Girls / boys 8,111 / 73,606762 / 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 Kaydens alive today are over 10; half the Kaylanies are over 6. That is 4 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 Kayden Kaylanie
France 5,6405

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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