Cady
Cady was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,571 among girls’ names; 2,454 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,410 Americans named Cady and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cady by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cady?
#9,571 among girls’ names, 2025
Cady fell from #5,319 in 2015 to #9,571 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 6.2 per million.
155 babies in 1992, the peak
Cady peaked in 1992, when 155 girls were given it, #1,136 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,571 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,657 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,207 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,928 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,787 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,904 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,082 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,249 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,393 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,881 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,319 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,936 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,038 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,150 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,945 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,969 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,260 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,062 | 29.6 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,341 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,584 | 36.8 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,123 | 47.1 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,239 | 42.5 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,675 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,416 | 36.7 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,287 | 38.9 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,631 | 30.8 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,017 | 43.4 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,248 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,943 | 42.5 |
| 1996 | 70 | #1,997 | 39.9 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,490 | 60.3 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,453 | 61.0 |
| 1993 | 125 | #1,334 | 69.1 |
| 1992 | 155 | #1,136 | 84.1 |
| 1991 | 154 | #1,147 | 82.1 |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,151 | 78.5 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,118 | 31.5 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,330 | 26.4 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,033 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,767 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,258 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,361 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,497 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,333 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,292 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,008 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,794 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,000 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,409 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,688 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,021 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,803 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,375 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,120 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cady a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cady has been given almost only to girls: 20 boys in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cady: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cady, and how old are they?
2,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,454 Americans ever recorded as Cady. The median Cady alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,309 people named Cady (2,263 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,311 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 79 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 933 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 306 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Cady born?
The states with the most babies named Cady are California, Texas and Michigan, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 173 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 137 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 44 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cady with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,187 babies since 1880, Cady is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 43 babies (23%), the third 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 Cady
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 Cady and names like it
- Compare Cady and KadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCady peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cady since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Cady.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cady alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.