Meaning not yet researched.
Cady: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,138 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,138 in 1992; #9,574 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cady in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,574 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #1,138.
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Cady: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,138 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 155 (1992).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Cady, making it the 9,574th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,913 places from #7,661 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 14 girls named Cady in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,138, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #5,321 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cady in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 2,454 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,082 babies named Cady.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 218 US girls were named Cady; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kady (2,885 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 Cady 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 | 10 | #9,574 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,661 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,212 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,931 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,791 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,906 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,086 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,882 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,321 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,153 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,947 | — | — |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1996 | 70 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1993 | 125 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1992 | 155 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1991 | 154 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,335 | 7 | #5,836 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,769 | 6 | #6,029 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,259 | 7 | #5,217 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,363 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,335 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,293 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,009 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,795 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,001 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,411 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,023 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,805 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,377 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,121 | — | — |
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).