Meaning not yet researched.
Kade: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 943 in 2025. Its best rank was #345 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #345 in 2024; #349 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Kade in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#349 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #345.
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Kade: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 943 boys in 2025. Peak: #345 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 993 (2024).
In 2025, 943 US boys were named Kade, making it the 349th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4 places from #345 in 2024. That is 50 fewer than the 993 boys named Kade in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #345, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 993. For comparison, it was #385 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kade in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 23,573 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,785 babies named Kade.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,829 US boys were named Kade; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 993. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,811 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kade ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #132 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cade (34,918 babies since 1880) and Cayde (1,676 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaid, Kayode and Kayd 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: Kaid (494), Kayode (203), Kayd (198), Kaed (22).
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 Kade 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 10 | #132 | #169 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #133 | #144 |
| Montana | 9 | #153 | — |
| Iowa | 20 | #203 | #221 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #215 | #311 |
| Maine | 6 | #220 | — |
| Ohio | 51 | #246 | #408 |
| Mississippi | 13 | #247 | #275 |
| Louisiana | 21 | #248 | #212 |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | #251 | #426 |
| Missouri | 28 | #254 | #332 |
| Idaho | 10 | #265 | #328 |
| Kentucky | 20 | #275 | #477 |
| Michigan | 35 | #282 | #436 |
| Tennessee | 31 | #285 | #310 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #304 | #213 |
| Indiana | 23 | #331 | #521 |
| Maryland | 16 | #336 | — |
| Florida | 57 | #343 | #487 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #347 | #339 |
| Alabama | 16 | #349 | #334 |
| Washington | 21 | #356 | #313 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #357 | #186 |
| Virginia | 23 | #358 | #761 |
| Minnesota | 16 | #365 | #284 |
| Arizona | 21 | #369 | #328 |
| Colorado | 17 | #375 | #497 |
| Oregon | 10 | #385 | #266 |
| Illinois | 28 | #385 | #393 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #388 | #373 |
| Georgia | 30 | #390 | #581 |
| Texas | 91 | #391 | #353 |
| Kansas | 9 | #414 | #195 |
| California | 78 | #418 | #470 |
| Utah | 11 | #424 | #195 |
| Nevada | 6 | #480 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #488 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #524 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #532 | — |
| New York | 28 | #565 | #880 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #800 | #1,037 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,757 | 943 | #349 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,409 | 993 | #345 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,712 | 935 | #351 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,770 | 940 | #351 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,661 | 849 | #381 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,225 | 859 | #363 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,347 | 845 | #376 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,657 | 933 | #355 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,158 | 752 | #415 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,727 | 780 | #411 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,791 | 832 | #385 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,758 | 770 | #404 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,426 | 715 | #413 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,861 | 636 | #437 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,715 | 689 | #412 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,185 | 743 | #385 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,403 | 719 | #409 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,065 | 718 | #413 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,253 | 656 | #432 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,901 | 636 | #433 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,378 | 656 | #414 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,547 | 701 | #386 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,731 | 690 | #377 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,847 | 717 | #366 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,487 | 682 | #382 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,501 | 593 | #417 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,957 | 542 | #432 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,706 | 391 | #529 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,835 | 329 | #569 |
| 1996 | — | — | 336 | #554 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,444 | 282 | #611 |
| 1994 | — | — | 229 | #689 |
| 1993 | — | — | 156 | #851 |
| 1992 | — | — | 111 | #1,041 |
| 1991 | — | — | 99 | #1,101 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,721 | 99 | #1,070 |
| 1989 | — | — | 75 | #1,250 |
| 1988 | — | — | 95 | #998 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,132 | 57 | #1,305 |
| 1986 | — | — | 75 | #1,081 |
| 1985 | — | — | 70 | #1,114 |
| 1984 | — | — | 54 | #1,258 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,615 |
| 1982 | — | — | 48 | #1,375 |
| 1981 | — | — | 30 | #1,879 |
| 1980 | — | — | 37 | #1,608 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,551 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,429 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,410 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,658 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,997 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,166 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,121 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,482 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,521 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,170 |
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).