Caden is a distinctive girls' name in United States, ranking #9573 in 2025 with 10 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2006 with 89 births ranking #2167. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 66.7%. In 2025, approximately 1 in every 160,727 girls born was named Caden. STABLE Recent data shows the name is currently stable.
Caden is a modern English name that is sometimes connected to an Irish surname, but live source evidence shows its popularity owes much more to sound than to a clear old-name tradition. That makes it better described as a modern trendy form than as a neatly inherited Irish given name.
Behind the Name notes that Caden rose in America in the 1990s because it shared the fashionable -den sound with names such as Hayden and Aidan. That is a more reliable explanation of the name's modern life than forcing an exact literal meaning.