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Caedmon

#9,864 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly battle

Caedmon has been given to 934 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #9,864 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Caedmon, 2025

1 in 474,000

Caedmon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caedmon: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly battle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caedmon means

Caedmon may mean “battle”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 934 boys were recorded with the name Caedmon between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,836 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,878 in 2020 to #9,864 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,378 in 2015 to #9,864 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Caedmon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,864
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caedmon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caedmon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caedmons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caedmon was born before 2009 — so the typical Caedmon is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
934
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (457).

Is Caedmon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,443
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,986
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,486
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.21×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.9%
Peak was 2010 (79)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,836
2010

Spellings of Caedmon

Caedmon is not the most common spelling — Caeden is, with 16.4% against Caedmon's 7.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Caedmon is used

Across 1910–2025, Caedmon was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 394,736 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caedmon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caedmon around the world

Where Caedmon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2007
    #3,589
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Caedmon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,864
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,986
Best rank ever
#1,836
2010
Peak year
2010
79 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
934
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Caedmon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Caedmon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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