Kaidence
Kaidence is given to both girls and boys: 41 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,674 among girls’ names and #5,714 among boys’, #5,177 among all names counting both); 3,896 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,870 Americans named Kaidence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaidence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaidence mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaidence 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 Kaidence?
#3,674 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaidence fell from #1,012 in 2015 to #3,674 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.03 per 1,000.
335 babies in 2014, the peak
Kaidence peaked in 2014, when 335 babies were given it (306 girls, #888 among girls’ names). The 57 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,674 | 16 | #5,714 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,248 | 21 | #4,788 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,735 | 33 | #3,508 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,139 | 31 | #3,653 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,658 | 38 | #3,150 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,362 | 46 | #2,706 |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,835 | 42 | #2,914 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,537 | 33 | #3,412 |
| 2017 | 174 | #1,337 | 40 | #2,979 |
| 2016 | 194 | #1,260 | 44 | #2,742 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 265 | #1,012 | 37 | #3,115 |
| 2014 | 306 | #888 | 29 | #3,654 |
| 2013 | 258 | #976 | 28 | #3,700 |
| 2012 | 195 | #1,245 | 24 | #4,197 |
| 2011 | 232 | #1,064 | 20 | #4,745 |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,207 | 14 | #6,201 |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,170 | 11 | #7,455 |
| 2008 | 167 | #1,425 | 11 | #7,448 |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,796 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 2006 | 132 | #1,621 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,560 | 10 | #7,388 |
| 2004 | 138 | #1,467 | 5 | #12,274 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,258 | 8 | #8,220 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,035 | 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 Kaidence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,896 Americans recorded as Kaidence, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaidence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaidence, and how old are they?
3,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,896 Americans ever recorded as Kaidence. The median Kaidence alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 2,671 people named Kaidence (2,391 women and girls, 280 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,180 |
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 Kaidence born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Kaidence is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaidence is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2002 it was given 1.3 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 Kaidence 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, Kaidence is the fifth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 859 babies (6.6%), 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 Kaidence
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 Kaidence and names like it
- Compare Kaidence and CadenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaidence peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaidence since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaidence: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kaidence.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaidence alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.