Baby name
STABLE
🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Cayden
/KAY · den/
Meaning
“Friend”
Modern invented name or variant of Caden, possibly derived from the Irish surname O'Cadain or the Arabic Khadin meaning friend; part of the -ayden suffix naming trend of the 2000s.
Nicknames
cay
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Peaked in the 2000s US trend wave of rhyming -ayden names; will date firmly to that era.
The cultural moment.
Peak in the US from approximately 2000-2012 alongside Aiden, Jayden, and Brayden.