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Kadence: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #344 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #344 in 2005; #1,616 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Kadence in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,616 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #344.
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Kadence: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 girls in 2025. Peak: #344 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 911 (2005).
In 2025, 129 US girls were named Kadence, making it the 1,616th most common girls’ name of the year, down 78 places from #1,538 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 139 girls named Kadence in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #344, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 911. For comparison, it was #574 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 75 US boys were named Kadence, making it the 2,014th most common boys’ name of the year, down 126 places from #1,888 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 85 boys named Kadence in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,586, reached in 2019. The most boys given the name in a single year was 106, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,861 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kadence in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 13,298 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,865 babies named Kadence.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,407 US girls were named Kadence; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 411. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,459 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kadence ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #593 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cadence (24,555 babies since 1880), Kaydence (18,459 babies since 1880), Caydence (3,898 babies since 1880) and Kaidence (3,896 babies since 1880).
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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 Kadence 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 18 | #593 | #518 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #842 | #305 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,047 | #339 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,137 | #812 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,205 | #352 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,291 | #666 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,773 | #885 |
| California | 10 | #2,016 | #833 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,616 | 75 | #2,014 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,538 | 85 | #1,888 |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,448 | 106 | #1,635 |
| 2022 | 175 | #1,347 | 106 | #1,636 |
| 2021 | 189 | #1,246 | 97 | #1,694 |
| 2020 | 253 | #1,004 | 97 | #1,649 |
| 2019 | 253 | #1,019 | 105 | #1,586 |
| 2018 | 302 | #893 | 79 | #1,891 |
| 2017 | 402 | #715 | 80 | #1,848 |
| 2016 | 411 | #700 | 61 | #2,221 |
| 2015 | 534 | #574 | 79 | #1,861 |
| 2014 | 602 | #515 | 91 | #1,684 |
| 2013 | 630 | #483 | 60 | #2,189 |
| 2012 | 657 | #469 | 74 | #1,929 |
| 2011 | 631 | #469 | 64 | #2,094 |
| 2010 | 697 | #441 | 53 | #2,385 |
| 2009 | 786 | #401 | 45 | #2,727 |
| 2008 | 825 | #391 | 52 | #2,450 |
| 2007 | 858 | #385 | 47 | #2,625 |
| 2006 | 815 | #391 | 45 | #2,641 |
| 2005 | 911 | #344 | 42 | #2,637 |
| 2004 | 797 | #390 | 54 | #2,176 |
| 2003 | 276 | #874 | 41 | #2,534 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,830 | 17 | #4,604 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,453 | 7 | #8,748 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,076 | 6 | #9,690 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,446 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,760 | 7 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,478 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,912 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,100 | 5 | #9,569 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,441 | — | — |
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).