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Kaedan
How to Pronounce Kaedan
Pronounced KAY-din /ˈkeɪ.dən/Medium
Meaning: Kaedan is a 2000s respelling of Caden/Kaden, itself a modern coinage. It rode the wave of -aden rhyming names (Aiden, Jayden, Braden); some tie it loosely to the Welsh/Irish surname Caden or to Cadan, but its popularity is a modern American invention.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Kaedan is a twenty-first-century respelling of Caden/Kaden, a modern coinage that exploded alongside Aiden, Jayden and Braden. The name has no long pedigree; a faint link to the surname Caden or the older Cadan is sometimes cited, but the -aden trend is what made it.
It surfaced in the American record only in the 2000s and stayed rare in this spelling — a scattered few dozen boys a year even at its high point around 2009, as parents personalized the popular Caden sound.
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What does the name Kaedan mean?
Kaedan is a modern respelling of Caden/Kaden, a coined American name that rode the -aden rhyming trend of Aiden and Jayden.
How do you pronounce Kaedan?
It's said KAY-din /ˈkeɪ.dən/ — two syllables, stress on the first.
Is Kaedan a boy or girl name?
Kaedan is used as a boy's name, like the Caden and Kaden spellings it comes from.
How popular is Kaedan?
Kaedan has always been rare in the U.S., a recent respelling of the more common Caden.