girls:
80 births since 2002
#5636 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1994
#3275 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1994
#6315 (18th percentile)
The name Kaydon is the #6,315 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,429 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 18.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,275 (28.5% percentile) for all time with 1,349 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,636 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 2002.
Kaydon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 2002 for girls). Birth data for Kaydon is available in 28 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023 (28 years for boys and 10 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 Kaydon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kaydon reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #811) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 48 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kaydon ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 36.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kaydon reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #930) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaydon".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kaydon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.1% confident that Kaydon is pronounced as KAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-dohn, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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