Kadence
Kadence is given to both girls and boys: 129 girls and 75 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,616 among girls’ names and #2,014 among boys’, #2,182 among all names counting both); 13,298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,200 Americans named Kadence 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 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kadence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kadence mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kadence is “a female given name from English.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Cadence.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kadence?
#1,616 among girls’ names, 2025
Kadence fell from #574 in 2015 to #1,616 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.30 to 0.08 per 1,000.
953 babies in 2005, the peak
Kadence peaked in 2005, when 953 babies were given it (911 girls, #344 among girls’ names). The 204 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,616 | 75 | #2,014 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,538 | 85 | #1,888 |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,448 | 106 | #1,635 |
| 2022 | 175 | #1,347 | 106 | #1,636 |
| 2021 | 189 | #1,246 | 97 | #1,694 |
| 2020 | 253 | #1,004 | 97 | #1,649 |
| 2019 | 253 | #1,019 | 105 | #1,586 |
| 2018 | 302 | #893 | 79 | #1,890 |
| 2017 | 402 | #715 | 80 | #1,848 |
| 2016 | 411 | #700 | 61 | #2,221 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 534 | #574 | 79 | #1,861 |
| 2014 | 602 | #515 | 91 | #1,684 |
| 2013 | 630 | #483 | 60 | #2,188 |
| 2012 | 657 | #469 | 74 | #1,928 |
| 2011 | 631 | #469 | 64 | #2,093 |
| 2010 | 697 | #441 | 53 | #2,384 |
| 2009 | 786 | #401 | 45 | #2,726 |
| 2008 | 825 | #391 | 52 | #2,449 |
| 2007 | 858 | #385 | 47 | #2,625 |
| 2006 | 815 | #391 | 45 | #2,640 |
| 2005 | 911 | #344 | 42 | #2,633 |
| 2004 | 797 | #390 | 54 | #2,172 |
| 2003 | 276 | #874 | 41 | #2,530 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,828 | 17 | #4,598 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,446 | 7 | #8,741 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,070 | 6 | #9,682 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,440 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,754 | 7 | #8,003 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,473 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,907 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,095 | 5 | #9,562 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,435 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kadence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,298 Americans recorded as Kadence, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kadence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kadence, and how old are they?
13,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,298 Americans ever recorded as Kadence. The median Kadence alive today is 15 years old; half are between 11 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 10,308 people named Kadence (9,384 women and girls, 924 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,260 |
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 Kadence born?
The states with the most babies named Kadence are Texas, Georgia and California, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #1,291 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 24 | #593 | 1.5× |
| California | 20 | #2,016 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,773 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 10 | #842 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,205 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,047 | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,137 | 0.7× |
Where Kadence is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kadence is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1994 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kadence 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 67,980 babies since 1880, Kadence is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 204 of their 859 babies (24%), 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 Kadence
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1990-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Amarie | 2,968 |
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 Kadence and names like it
- Compare Kadence and CadenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKadence peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kadence since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Kadence: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kadence.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kadence alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.