This is NOT a recent creation just made up to rhyme with Caden, Jayden, etc. It is a surname turned into a given name. It is particularly famous in Oklahoma because of Paden Tolbert (1863-1904), who was a railroad agent and lawman in Indian Territory. He was born in Georgia and in the first census he's listed in 1870 the census taker spelled his name as Peden. In some other censuses the name is spelled Payton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paden_TolbertThere were 2,645 persons with the surname Paden in the 1950 USA census. It is probably a variation of an English surname, either Payton (from places called Peyton in Essex and Suffolk), or of Padan, Padyn, and Peden, which are medieval diminutives of Patrick, according to Hanks and Hodges' "A Dictionary of Surnames." So though Paden's use has certainly increased because of its rhyming with Kaden, Brayden, Jayden, etc., it is not actually just a new creation based on them. [noted -ed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paden_Tolbert
There were 2,645 persons with the surname Paden in the 1950 USA census. It is probably a variation of an English surname, either Payton (from places called Peyton in Essex and Suffolk), or of Padan, Padyn, and Peden, which are medieval diminutives of Patrick, according to Hanks and Hodges' "A Dictionary of Surnames."
So though Paden's use has certainly increased because of its rhyming with Kaden, Brayden, Jayden, etc., it is not actually just a new creation based on them. [noted -ed]