Meaning not yet researched.
Cadance: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,772 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,772 in 2004; #12,150 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cadance in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,150 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #1,772.
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Cadance: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,772 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 108 (2004).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Cadance, making it the 12,150th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,565 places from #15,715 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 girls named Cadance in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,772, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #7,344 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cadance in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 20 babies. In all, 951 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 627 babies named Cadance.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US girls were named Cadance; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cadence (24,555 babies since 1880), Kadence (13,298 babies since 1880), Caydence (3,898 babies since 1880) and Kaydance (1,621 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cadance in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,150 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,715 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,919 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,796 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,061 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,144 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,958 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,585 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,665 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,344 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,865 | — | — |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,000 | 5 | #12,564 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,706 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).