Cayde
Cayde was given to 129 boys in 2025, #1,409 among boys’ names; 1,676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Cayde and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayde by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cayde?
#1,409 among boys’ names, 2025
Cayde rose from #4,420 in 2015 to #1,409 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 75.5 per million.
207 babies in 2019, the peak
Cayde peaked in 2019, when 207 boys were given it, #1,009 among boys’ names. The 129 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,409 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 162 | #1,235 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,206 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,180 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 161 | #1,202 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,196 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 207 | #1,009 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 171 | #1,130 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 93 | #1,697 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 46 | #2,665 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,420 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,038 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,301 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,753 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,682 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,400 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,144 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,451 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,957 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,193 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,083 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,924 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,559 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,524 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,316 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,890 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,050 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cayde a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cayde has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cayde: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayde, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,676 Americans ever recorded as Cayde. The median Cayde alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 767 people named Cayde (40 women and girls, 727 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 761 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 149 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,510 |
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 Cayde born?
The states with the most babies named Cayde are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,570 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,206 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 8 | #955 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 8 | #812 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 7 | #788 | 1.2× |
| California | 6 | #2,249 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,010 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,060 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 5 | #886 | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | #785 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Cayde 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 61,738 babies since 1880, Cayde is the third most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 2,548 babies (5.1%), again the third 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 Cayde
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 Cayde and names like it
- Compare Cayde and CadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCayde peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cayde since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Cayde.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cayde alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.