Kadey
Kadey was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 131 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kadey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kadey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,531, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2005, the peak
Kadey peaked in 2005, when 11 girls were given it, #9,771 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,531 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,125 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,148 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,376 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,449 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,986 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,771 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,349 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,820 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,600 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 | #9,702 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,409 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,445 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,899 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,519 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,063 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,959 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,187 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kadey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kadey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kadey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kadey, and how old are they?
An estimated 129 Americans named Kadey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 20 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 174 people named Kadey (165 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Kadey?
Kadey is a less common spelling of Kady: SSA has recorded 131 Kadey and 2,885 Kady since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,945 babies since 1880, Kadey is the eighth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 63 babies recorded by SSA was a Kadey (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kadey
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 Kadey and names like it
- Compare Kadey and KadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKadey peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kadey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kadey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.