Meaning not yet researched.
Cadence: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 245 in 2025. Its best rank was #199 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #199 in 2007; #1,022 in 2025. About 76% of babies named Cadence in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,022 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #199.
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Cadence: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 245 girls in 2025. Peak: #199 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 1,707 (2007).
In 2025, 245 US girls were named Cadence, making it the 1,022nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 14 places from #1,036 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 243 girls named Cadence in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #199, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,707. For comparison, it was #340 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 76 US boys were named Cadence, making it the 1,994th most common boys’ name of the year, down 197 places from #1,797 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 91 boys named Cadence in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,530, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #1,855 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cadence in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 10 babies. In all, 24,555 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 8.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 11,264 babies named Cadence.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,704 US girls were named Cadence; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 867. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,560 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cadence ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #145 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaydence (18,459 babies since 1880), Kadence (13,298 babies since 1880), Caydence (3,898 babies since 1880) and Kaidence (3,896 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaedence, Caydance and Kadience are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaedence (608), Caydance (335), Kadience (301), Cadynce (272), Kadince (222), Caidance (195), Caedence (169), Cadince (111), Cadience (80), Caidynce (74), Caydince (40), Caedance (27).
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 Cadence in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 5 | #145 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #359 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #565 | #325 |
| Virginia | 13 | #579 | #363 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #611 | #260 |
| Georgia | 17 | #620 | #259 |
| Alabama | 7 | #648 | #313 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #691 | #328 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #717 | #237 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #779 | #275 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #799 | #276 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #813 | #423 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,045 | #310 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,093 | #221 |
| California | 23 | #1,117 | #438 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,320 | #332 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,442 | #496 |
| New York | 8 | #1,551 | #475 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,572 | #483 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 245 | #1,022 | 76 | #1,994 |
| 2024 | 243 | #1,036 | 91 | #1,797 |
| 2023 | 275 | #952 | 115 | #1,530 |
| 2022 | 326 | #856 | 75 | #2,024 |
| 2021 | 377 | #758 | 92 | #1,752 |
| 2020 | 417 | #680 | 107 | #1,540 |
| 2019 | 557 | #545 | 97 | #1,661 |
| 2018 | 645 | #488 | 87 | #1,763 |
| 2017 | 752 | #422 | 75 | #1,922 |
| 2016 | 867 | #379 | 77 | #1,905 |
| 2015 | 967 | #340 | 79 | #1,855 |
| 2014 | 1,003 | #335 | 77 | #1,888 |
| 2013 | 1,037 | #308 | 81 | #1,782 |
| 2012 | 1,091 | #291 | 73 | #1,945 |
| 2011 | 1,151 | #275 | 78 | #1,824 |
| 2010 | 1,382 | #227 | 96 | #1,627 |
| 2009 | 1,460 | #223 | 107 | #1,539 |
| 2008 | 1,612 | #212 | 74 | #1,934 |
| 2007 | 1,707 | #199 | 81 | #1,795 |
| 2006 | 1,599 | #214 | 87 | #1,642 |
| 2005 | 1,670 | #207 | 72 | #1,807 |
| 2004 | 1,552 | #218 | 79 | #1,631 |
| 2003 | 620 | #476 | 64 | #1,849 |
| 2002 | 232 | #958 | 50 | #2,131 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,130 | 32 | #2,870 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,459 | 27 | #3,160 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,409 | 19 | #3,861 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,618 | 17 | #4,040 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,664 | 9 | #6,155 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,157 | 11 | #5,227 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,597 | 9 | #5,987 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,692 | 5 | #8,886 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,874 | 6 | #7,539 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,832 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,891 | — | — |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,883 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,509 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,968 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,204 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,071 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,879 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,463 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,369 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,389 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,965 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,762 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,450 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,641 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,103 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,398 | — | — |
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).