Meaning not yet researched.
Cade: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,392 in 2025. Its best rank was #201 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #201 in 2001; #248 in 2025. About 99.5% of babies named Cade in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#248 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #201.
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Cade: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,392 boys in 2025. Peak: #201 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 1,811 (2001).
In 2025, 1,392 US boys were named Cade, making it the 248th most common boys’ name of the year, up 24 places from #272 in 2024. That is 127 more than the 1,265 boys named Cade in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #201, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,811. For comparison, it was #364 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cade in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 34,918 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 13,722 babies named Cade.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,924 US boys were named Cade; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,392. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,227 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cade ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #107 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kade (23,573 babies since 1880) and Cayde (1,676 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayde, Kaede and Kaide are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kayde (975), Kaede (318), Kaide (273), Caid (174), Caide (120), Cayd (70), Caed (11), Cad (10).
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 Cade in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 9 | #107 | #201 |
| Ohio | 119 | #113 | #338 |
| Michigan | 84 | #119 | #456 |
| Kentucky | 36 | #149 | #323 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #154 | #299 |
| Maine | 8 | #157 | — |
| Indiana | 51 | #163 | #347 |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | #179 | #381 |
| Tennessee | 51 | #184 | #214 |
| Maryland | 32 | #190 | #537 |
| Iowa | 21 | #192 | #219 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #199 | — |
| North Dakota | 6 | #200 | #205 |
| Kansas | 19 | #207 | #283 |
| Delaware | 5 | #211 | — |
| Missouri | 32 | #219 | #307 |
| Alabama | 25 | #225 | #388 |
| Massachusetts | 26 | #232 | — |
| North Carolina | 53 | #233 | #337 |
| Minnesota | 27 | #234 | #282 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #237 | #317 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #256 | #249 |
| Idaho | 10 | #262 | #394 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #267 | #276 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #267 | #234 |
| Florida | 78 | #267 | #417 |
| Nevada | 11 | #273 | #513 |
| Washington | 26 | #287 | #288 |
| Oregon | 14 | #296 | #324 |
| Illinois | 36 | #297 | #414 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #300 | #269 |
| Virginia | 27 | #306 | #470 |
| Georgia | 40 | #309 | #332 |
| Colorado | 20 | #319 | #275 |
| Utah | 14 | #329 | #269 |
| Texas | 106 | #353 | #374 |
| California | 98 | #357 | #491 |
| New Jersey | 23 | #357 | #990 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #371 | #408 |
| Arizona | 19 | #399 | #335 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #422 | #250 |
| New York | 40 | #425 | #903 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #564 | #270 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,507 | 1,392 | #248 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,789 | 1,265 | #272 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,368 | 1,218 | #280 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,736 | 1,170 | #292 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,445 | 961 | #338 |
| 2020 | — | — | 823 | #376 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,561 | 787 | #397 |
| 2018 | — | — | 830 | #386 |
| 2017 | — | — | 697 | #445 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,666 | 781 | #410 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,269 | 892 | #364 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,151 | 880 | #361 |
| 2013 | — | — | 807 | #376 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,368 | 821 | #369 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,247 | 867 | #347 |
| 2010 | — | — | 949 | #330 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,649 | 986 | #325 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,074 | #309 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,173 | #294 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,468 | 1,215 | #287 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,027 | 1,162 | #286 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,362 | 1,309 | #253 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,200 | 1,576 | #221 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,613 | 1,716 | #208 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,807 | 1,811 | #201 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,646 | #216 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,776 | 1,498 | #225 |
| 1998 | — | — | 806 | #336 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,140 | 480 | #460 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,846 | 428 | #493 |
| 1995 | — | — | 393 | #516 |
| 1994 | — | — | 303 | #591 |
| 1993 | — | — | 221 | #696 |
| 1992 | — | — | 163 | #825 |
| 1991 | — | — | 142 | #886 |
| 1990 | — | — | 136 | #882 |
| 1989 | — | — | 112 | #963 |
| 1988 | — | — | 104 | #944 |
| 1987 | — | — | 108 | #904 |
| 1986 | — | — | 84 | #1,009 |
| 1985 | — | — | 102 | #897 |
| 1984 | — | — | 72 | #1,056 |
| 1983 | — | — | 78 | #1,002 |
| 1982 | — | — | 60 | #1,196 |
| 1981 | — | — | 79 | #1,024 |
| 1980 | — | — | 64 | #1,134 |
| 1979 | — | — | 55 | #1,242 |
| 1978 | — | — | 50 | #1,272 |
| 1977 | — | — | 76 | #981 |
| 1976 | — | — | 37 | #1,472 |
| 1975 | — | — | 61 | #1,068 |
| 1974 | — | — | 60 | #1,068 |
| 1973 | — | — | 60 | #1,048 |
| 1972 | — | — | 66 | #993 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,292 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,308 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,345 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #2,934 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,645 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,013 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,873 |
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).