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Kadin

#3,993 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kadin has been given to 5,253 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #3,993 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 490 recorded.

Babies named Kadin, 2025

1 in 123,000

Kadin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kadin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kadin means

Kadin is a given name.

The naming story behind Kadin

Wikidata records Kadin as a given name. The entity identifier is Q30669827, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,074 boys were recorded with the name Kadin between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 490 in 2004; its best national rank was #499 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,762 in 2020 to #3,993 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,096 in 2015 to #3,993 in 2025.

In the United States, 179 girls were recorded with the name Kadin between 1994 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,991 in 2004.

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 Kadin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,993
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kadin 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kadins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadin was born before 2005 — so the typical Kadin is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
67.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,074
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 67.4% of all recorded uses (3,421).

Is Kadin 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
−803
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−231
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,897
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.5%
Peak was 2004 (490)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#499
2004

Spellings of Kadin

Kadin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 53.7% against Kadin's 0.23%.

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 Kadin is used

Across 1910–2025, Kadin was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 46,507 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 20,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4Idaho1 in 25,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 25,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 25,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 33,333

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. Kadin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kadin around the world

Where Kadin 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
    2003–2014
    #3,895
    in 2014
  • Scotland
    2006–2011
    #648
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1994–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1992–2009
    #473
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Kadin

People whose public names include Kadin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kadin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,993
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 231
Best rank ever
#499
2004
Peak year
2004
490 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,074
Count in 2025
27

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,991
2004
Peak year
2004
26 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
179
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kadin

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

KadynKadeemAydinKadonKadirKadeKadanAdinJaydinKadenceKadenLandinJordinOdinAidinAldinEldinCadinHardinKaydinBrandinEdinJadinKadarius

Names with a curve like Kadin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kadin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BraedonGavenOmarionJaylanJaedenTreytonJaedonJaylinBraedenSavionJavenEthen

Sibling names for Kadin

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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