Kady
Kady was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,140 among girls’ names; 2,885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,830 Americans named Kady and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kady by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kady?
#9,140 among girls’ names, 2025
Kady fell from #4,650 in 2015 to #9,140 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 6.8 per million.
134 babies in 2008, the peak
Kady peaked in 2008, when 134 girls were given it, #1,672 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,140 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,780 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,077 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,328 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,153 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,556 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,363 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,531 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,526 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,887 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,650 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,398 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,585 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,613 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,748 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,227 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,693 | 37.0 |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,672 | 70.9 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,269 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,654 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,213 | 44.9 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,376 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,191 | 43.2 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,104 | 45.1 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,293 | 38.9 |
| 2000 | 73 | #2,177 | 40.2 |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,061 | 42.3 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,851 | 47.0 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,673 | 54.0 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,797 | 46.8 |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,439 | 63.7 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,443 | 61.6 |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,412 | 63.6 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,720 | 47.2 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,712 | 45.3 |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,372 | 60.6 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,605 | 47.2 |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,469 | 52.2 |
| 1987 | 122 | #1,194 | 70.2 |
| 1986 | 108 | #1,256 | 63.0 |
| 1985 | 113 | #1,221 | 65.7 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,454 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,560 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,833 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,708 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,500 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,307 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,557 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,337 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,582 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,701 | 8.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,576 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kady a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kady has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kady: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kady, and how old are they?
2,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,885 Americans ever recorded as Kady. The median Kady alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,862 people named Kady (2,837 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 80 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 333 |
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 Kady born?
The states with the most babies named Kady are California, Texas and New York, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 225 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 189 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 106 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Kady 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 11,493 babies since 1880, Kady is the most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 113 babies (9.7%), the fourth 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 Kady
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 Kady and names like it
- Compare Kady and KadieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKady peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kady since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kady.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kady alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.