Cadence — #1035 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Cadence

The Social Security Administration has registered 22,182 babies named Cadence between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cadence currently holds the #1035 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 1,707 babies received it in a single year. Cadence is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,049 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cadence performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10,591 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Cadence shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,881 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Cadence in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cadence in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 22,182 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.