Cadie
Cadie was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,349 among girls’ names; 825 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cadie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cadie?
#15,349 among girls’ names, 2025
Cadie fell from #9,049 in 2015 to #15,349 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.1 per million.
36 babies in 2007, the peak
Cadie peaked in 2007, when 36 girls were given it, #4,228 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,349 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,047 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,384 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,915 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,441 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,416 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,863 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,954 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,582 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,482 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,049 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,080 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,823 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,581 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,278 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,695 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,706 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,372 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,228 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,977 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,040 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,085 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,821 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,105 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,955 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,517 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,465 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,430 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,841 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,070 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,787 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,129 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,429 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,545 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,546 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,627 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,255 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,191 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,306 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,482 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,102 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,504 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,160 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,368 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,608 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,134 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,026 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cadie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cadie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cadie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cadie, and how old are they?
An estimated 812 Americans named Cadie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 767 people named Cadie (761 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 771 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 8,806 babies since 1880, Cadie is the fifth most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 41 babies (12%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Cadie
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 Cadie and names like it
- Compare Cadie and KadieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cadie since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Cadie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cadie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.