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Kaydon

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Kaydon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
310.00% of boys
Peak year
201498 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1994
1,461people given the name
Babies named Kaydon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,381 boys have been named Kaydon in the United States since 1994, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 98 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 51%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 80 girls have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Kaydon
1990s28
2000s455
2010s706
2020s192

In 2014, its biggest year

Kaydon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Kaydon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.