Kadie
Kadie was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,085 among girls’ names; 2,630 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Kadie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kadie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kadie?
#8,085 among girls’ names, 2025
Kadie fell from #4,540 in 2015 to #8,085 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 8.1 per million.
112 babies in 1990, the peak
Kadie peaked in 1990, when 112 girls were given it, #1,410 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,085 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,073 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,076 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,803 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,874 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,923 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,649 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,624 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,885 | 12.4 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,540 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 27 | #5,093 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,197 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,021 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,632 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,993 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,692 | 37.0 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,388 | 42.8 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,204 | 46.8 |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,157 | 47.3 |
| 2005 | 94 | #2,008 | 50.9 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,272 | 41.9 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,351 | 38.9 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,948 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,719 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,645 | 30.8 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,759 | 51.3 |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,994 | 42.4 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,059 | 39.6 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,811 | 46.2 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,640 | 51.2 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,673 | 49.8 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,543 | 55.8 |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,622 | 51.0 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,658 | 48.0 |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,410 | 59.0 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,604 | 47.2 |
| 1988 | 107 | #1,336 | 60.1 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,390 | 55.8 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,742 | 39.1 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,579 | 44.2 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,656 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,937 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,698 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,746 | 19.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,905 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,380 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,042 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,533 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,581 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,297 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kadie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kadie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kadie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kadie, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,630 Americans ever recorded as Kadie. The median Kadie alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,509 people named Kadie (2,505 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 103 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 237 |
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 Kadie born?
The states with the most babies named Kadie are California, Texas and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 190 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 168 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 32 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 32 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Kadie 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 11,503 babies since 1880, Kadie is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 63 babies (21%), again the second 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 Kadie
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 Kadie and names like it
- Compare Kadie and KadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKadie peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kadie since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kadie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kadie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.