girls:
1.8k births since 1994
#3947 (31st percentile)
boys:
39.5k births since 1990
#567 (88th percentile)
overall:
41.3k births since 1990
#1217 (84th percentile)
The name Cayden is the #1,217 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,317 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 84.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #567 (87.6% percentile) for all time with 39,476 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #3,947 (30.9% percentile) for all time with 1,841 births since 1994.
Cayden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 1994 for girls).
The name Cayden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cayden reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 84.3% percentile (ranked #142) with 1,296 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 1,296 births per million (ranked 84.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cayden ranks #310 for boys (66.0% percentile) with 558 births per million, which is 43.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cayden reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 16.5% percentile (ranked #822) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 80 births per million (ranked 16.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cayden ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cayden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cayden is pronounced as KAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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