Kaid
#4,463 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaid has been given to 494 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #4,463 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Kaid, 2025
1 in 144,000
Kaid over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kaid?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 74,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,463
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaid sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaids were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaid was born before 2010 — so the typical Kaid is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 494
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (158).
Is Kaid 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
- +165
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +20
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,671
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.64×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (23)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.1% average annual change
Spellings of Kaid
Kaid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 85.3% against Kaid's 0.01%.
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.
Kaid around the world
Where Kaid 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 & Wales1997–2025#4,275in 2025
- Canada2018–2018#2,536in 2018
- South Australia2001–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kaid by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaid
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaid
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.