Cayden

The story behind Cayden

Cayden is a 21st-century American respelling of Aidan (or Caden), which derives from the Irish name Aodhán, a diminutive of Aodh, meaning "fire" in Old Irish. The name gained popularity in the 1990s–2000s, when American parents began altering traditional names through phonetic spelling variations. Cayden represents a modern blending of the "Cay-" prefix sound (popular in names like Cayce or Kayla) with the "-den" ending trendy in contemporary American naming.