Caydence
Caydence is given to both girls and boys: 24 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,275 among girls’ names and #9,878 among boys’, #7,749 among all names counting both); 3,898 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,870 Americans named Caydence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caydence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caydence?
#5,275 among girls’ names, 2025
Caydence fell from #1,227 in 2015 to #5,275 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.01 per 1,000.
311 babies in 2009, the peak
Caydence peaked in 2009, when 311 babies were given it (301 girls, #904 among girls’ names). The 31 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,275 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,221 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,902 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,826 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,685 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,324 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,074 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 106 | #1,891 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,665 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 201 | #1,227 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 240 | #1,070 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 211 | #1,139 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 250 | #1,012 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 263 | #976 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 282 | #920 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 301 | #904 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 252 | #1,038 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 205 | #1,219 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 171 | #1,354 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 173 | #1,292 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 170 | #1,264 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,893 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,625 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caydence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,898 Americans recorded as Caydence, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caydence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caydence, and how old are they?
3,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,898 Americans ever recorded as Caydence. The median Caydence alive today is 15 years old; half are between 11 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,106 people named Caydence (2,921 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,503 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,660 |
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 Caydence born?
The states with the most babies named Caydence are Texas, California and Ohio, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 342 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 226 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 150 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 137 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 129 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 118 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 103 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 98 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 94 | not ranked | 1.0× |
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 Caydence with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Caydence?
Caydence is a less common spelling of Kaydence: SSA has recorded 3,898 Caydence and 18,459 Kaydence since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,937 babies since 1880, Caydence is the fourth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 859 babies (3.6%), the fifth 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 Caydence
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 Caydence and names like it
- Compare Caydence and KaydenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCaydence peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caydence since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Caydence.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caydence alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.