Meaning not yet researched.
Kady: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,194 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,194 in 1987; #9,143 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kady in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,143 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,194.
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Kady: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,194 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 134 (2008).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Kady, making it the 9,143rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,359 places from #6,784 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 17 girls named Kady in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,194, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 134, in 2008. For comparison, it was #4,651 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kady in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 2,885 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 958 babies named Kady.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 241 US girls were named Kady; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kadie (2,630 babies since 1880) and Cady (2,454 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kadee, Kadi and Kaydi 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: Kadee (1,053), Kadi (954), Kaydi (294), Cadi (248), Kadia (165), Kadey (131), Cadey (123), Kaidy (32), Kaddy (10), Caidy (5).
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 Kady 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 | 11 | #9,143 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,784 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,082 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,157 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,560 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,367 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,535 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,528 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,651 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,749 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,694 | — | — |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2000 | 73 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1987 | 122 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1986 | 108 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1985 | 113 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,561 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,710 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,501 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,338 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,584 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,577 | — | — |
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).