girls:
516 births since 1996
#5200 (9th percentile)
boys:
22.3k births since 1990
#766 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.8k births since 1990
#1676 (78th percentile)
The name Caiden is the #1,676 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,818 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 78.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #766 (83.3% percentile) for all time with 22,302 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #5,200 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 516 births since 1996.
Caiden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Caiden is available in 32 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023 (32 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Caiden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Caiden reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 72.8% percentile (ranked #247) with 643 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 661 births per million (ranked 70.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Caiden ranks #444 for boys (51.3% percentile) with 331 births per million, which is 50.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Caiden reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #945) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Caiden ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caiden".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Caiden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Caiden is pronounced as KAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAI-duhn, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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