Caden
Caden places #201 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. A newer arrival, the national records only pick it up in 1979, with 72,045 bearers to date.
Caden’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Caden, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Caden since 1979
Caden peaked in 2007 at #92; #201 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Caden is most common
The state that gives Caden most often, per boys born there, is New Hampshire (0.4% in 2025); District of Columbia and Alaska are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Caden
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Camden
#205 in 2025
Chase
#192 in 2025
Cole
#182 in 2025
Callie
#175 in 2025
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Cade
#248 in 2025
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
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About Caden
How common is Caden today?
Caden places #201 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. The full curve since 1979 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Caden have a meaning on record?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Caden. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Which names sit near Caden?
Nearest by the published recipe: Camden, Chase and Cole. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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