Kaede
Kaede was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,010 among girls’ names; 318 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaede by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaede mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaede is “a Japanese female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaede?
#16,010 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaede fell from #13,684 in 2015 to #16,010 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.1 per million.
24 babies in 2023, the peak
Kaede peaked in 2023, when 24 babies were given it (13 girls, #8,251 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,010 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,251 | 11 | #7,501 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,269 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,804 | 7 | #10,236 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,236 | 7 | #10,052 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,873 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,159 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,157 | 5 | #13,217 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,724 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,684 | 5 | #13,021 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #7,136 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,334 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,373 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,039 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,795 | 6 | #11,440 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,049 | 8 | #9,418 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,157 | 5 | #13,551 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,293 | 5 | #13,365 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,303 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,087 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,543 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,003 | 6 | #10,211 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,438 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,196 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,810 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,808 | 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 Kaede a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 318 Americans recorded as Kaede, 78% are girls and 22% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaede: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaede, and how old are they?
An estimated 315 Americans named Kaede and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 320 people named Kaede (249 women and girls, 71 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 259 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,456 babies since 1880, Kaede is the eighth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 124 babies (4.0%), the seventh 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 Kaede
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 Kaede and names like it
- Compare Kaede and KadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaede peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaede since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaede: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Kaede.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaede alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.