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Kayden vs Kayvion

American parents have registered 81,717 Kaydens since 1880, against 539 Kayvions. Kayden is still ahead, with 2,735 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kayden Kayvion

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 2001, when Kayden had 367 and Kayvion had 6.

Side by side

  Kayden Kayvion
Total US births 81,717539
Most in one year 5,13643
Babies in 2025 2,73543
Estimated living today 81,000540
Median age today 108
Peak year 20142025
Best rank 90th boys2,884th boys
Rank in 2025 135th2,884th
First recorded 19892001
Girls / boys 8,111 / 73,6060 / 539

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 Kayvions are over 8. That is 2 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: Kayden and Kayvion.