girls:
916 births since 1993
#4800 (16th percentile)
boys:
68.6k births since 1979
#398 (91st percentile)
overall:
69.5k births since 1979
#874 (89th percentile)
The name Caden is the #874 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69,511 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 88.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #398 (91.3% percentile) for all time with 68,595 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #4,800 (16.0% percentile) for all time with 916 births since 1993.
Caden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for boys and 1993 for girls).
The name Caden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Caden reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 89.8% percentile (ranked #91) with 2,282 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 2,282 births per million (ranked 89.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Caden ranks #195 for boys (78.7% percentile) with 1,002 births per million, which is 43.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Caden reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #882) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 43 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Caden ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Caden is pronounced as KAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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