Given name & surname
Cadan
“battle”·“place”
Cadan is a masculine given name. It is used in Welsh.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cadan is built from elements meaning “battle” and “place”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Welsh cad (“battle”) + man (“place”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cadan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 328
- 328 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,887 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −68%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,887 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 346 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cadan’s family of names
Cadan has a related form in Caden. Cadan has a related form in Cade.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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