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Kaidan

#5,992 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kaidan has been given to 1,206 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #5,992 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 77 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Kaidan, 2025

1 in 221,000

Kaidan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kaidan over time

In 2025, Kaidan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20002025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Kaidan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaidan means

Kaidan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaidan is used in Pazeh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,134 boys were recorded with the name Kaidan between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,853 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,074 in 2020 to #5,992 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,247 in 2015 to #5,992 in 2025.

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Kaidan between 2003 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2008; its best national rank was #9,755 in 2008.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kaidan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,992
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaidan 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaidan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaidans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaidan was born before 2012 — so the typical Kaidan is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (592).

Is Kaidan 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
−838
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,918
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,745
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.5%
Peak was 2010 (77)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,853
2011

Spellings of Kaidan

Kaidan is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 30.9% against Kaidan's 0.14%.

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 Kaidan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kaidan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 451,002 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Kaidan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kaidan around the world

Where Kaidan 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
    1999–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2016
    #421
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2015–2017
    #710
    in 2017
  • France
    2020–2020
    #4,265
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2002–2013
    #2,104
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2000–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kaidan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,992
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,918
Best rank ever
#1,853
2011
Peak year
2010
77 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,134
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,755
2008
Peak year
2008
12 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaidan

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

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Sibling names for Kaidan

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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