Cadance
Cadance was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,146 among girls’ names; 951 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cadance by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cadance?
#12,146 among girls’ names, 2025
Cadance fell from #7,341 in 2015 to #12,146 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 4.4 per million.
108 babies in 2004, the peak
Cadance peaked in 2004, when 108 girls were given it, #1,771 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,146 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,710 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,914 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,791 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,056 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,139 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,953 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,581 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,662 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,341 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 27 | #5,050 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,863 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,999 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,275 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,785 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,572 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,541 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,149 | 48.4 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,921 | 55.2 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,968 | 52.5 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,771 | 58.8 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,709 | 31.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,702 | 11.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cadance a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cadance has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 23 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cadance: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cadance, and how old are they?
An estimated 943 Americans named Cadance and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,043 people named Cadance (982 women and girls, 61 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 910 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,436 babies since 1880, Cadance is the seventh most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 590 babies (1.2%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cadance
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cadance and names like it
- Compare Cadance and CadenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCadance peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cadance since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Cadance.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cadance alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.