Meaning not yet researched.
Kaydence: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 173 in 2025. Its best rank was #254 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #254 in 2009; #1,292 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Kaydence in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,292 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #254.
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Kaydence: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 173 girls in 2025. Peak: #254 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 1,288 (2009).
In 2025, 173 US girls were named Kaydence, making it the 1,292nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 93 places from #1,199 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 198 girls named Kaydence in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #254, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,288. For comparison, it was #349 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Kaydence, making it the 2,781st most common boys’ name of the year, down 322 places from #2,459 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 56 boys named Kaydence in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,144, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #2,664 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaydence in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 70 babies. In all, 18,459 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 4.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,976 babies named Kaydence.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,232 US girls were named Kaydence; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 851. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaydence ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #402 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), Kadence (13,298 babies since 1880), Caydence (3,898 babies since 1880) and Kaidence (3,896 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaidance, Kaidynce and Kaydince are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kaidance (471), Kaidynce (448), Kaydince (338), Kaedynce (219), Kaydynce (133), Kaedance (111), Kaydience (32), Kayedence (18), Kaidince (6).
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 Kaydence 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 8 | #402 | #194 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #476 | #256 |
| Kansas | 6 | #545 | #384 |
| Alabama | 6 | #770 | #140 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #783 | #256 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #809 | #211 |
| Maryland | 5 | #916 | #365 |
| Arizona | 6 | #973 | #378 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,146 | #477 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,216 | #244 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,284 | #402 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,323 | #285 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,495 | #455 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,519 | #418 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,671 | #337 |
| California | 12 | #1,798 | #710 |
| New York | 6 | #1,950 | #835 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 173 | #1,292 | 46 | #2,781 |
| 2024 | 198 | #1,199 | 56 | #2,459 |
| 2023 | 240 | #1,048 | 52 | #2,561 |
| 2022 | 315 | #886 | 52 | #2,603 |
| 2021 | 328 | #843 | 67 | #2,144 |
| 2020 | 407 | #694 | 56 | #2,382 |
| 2019 | 478 | #627 | 62 | #2,246 |
| 2018 | 605 | #518 | 55 | #2,403 |
| 2017 | 637 | #491 | 54 | #2,403 |
| 2016 | 851 | #388 | 44 | #2,745 |
| 2015 | 948 | #349 | 46 | #2,664 |
| 2014 | 1,123 | #290 | 53 | #2,414 |
| 2013 | 1,170 | #274 | 46 | #2,611 |
| 2012 | 1,200 | #272 | 38 | #3,031 |
| 2011 | 1,222 | #262 | 35 | #3,210 |
| 2010 | 1,271 | #256 | 38 | #3,051 |
| 2009 | 1,288 | #254 | 13 | #6,638 |
| 2008 | 1,175 | #286 | 26 | #3,990 |
| 2007 | 1,023 | #326 | 7 | #10,352 |
| 2006 | 913 | #360 | 17 | #5,194 |
| 2005 | 875 | #358 | 11 | #6,879 |
| 2004 | 830 | #377 | 5 | #12,317 |
| 2003 | 234 | #987 | 6 | #10,251 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,320 | — | — |
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).