Kadence — #1534 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kadence

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,487 babies named Kadence between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kadence currently holds the #1534 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 911 babies received it in a single year. Kadence is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,603 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kadence performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,395 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kadence shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,113 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kadence in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kadence 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 11,487 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.