Kayde
Kayde was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,819 among boys’ names; 975 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayde by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kayde mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kayde is “a male given name of modern usage.”
Re-spelling of Cade.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kayde?
#2,819 among boys’ names, 2025
Kayde rose from #3,639 in 2015 to #2,819 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 26.3 per million.
51 babies in 2021, the peak
Kayde peaked in 2021, when 51 babies were given it (43 boys, #2,889 among boys’ names). The 45 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 45 | #2,819 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 46 | #2,815 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 50 | #2,636 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 47 | #2,775 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,634 | 43 | #2,889 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,805 | 37 | #3,098 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 45 | #2,782 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,877 | 38 | #3,075 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 31 | #3,548 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 25 | #4,151 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,802 | 30 | #3,639 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,600 | 25 | #4,071 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,925 | 27 | #3,810 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,065 | 18 | #5,139 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,750 | 11 | #7,248 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 25 | #4,050 | |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,878 | 6 | #11,735 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,735 | 24 | #4,197 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,141 | 14 | #6,100 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,246 | 11 | #7,184 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,706 | 8 | #8,706 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,171 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,391 | 11 | #6,501 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,540 | 5 | #11,605 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,541 | 8 | #7,941 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,266 | 8 | #7,823 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,137 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,204 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,399 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,912 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,091 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,105 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,823 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,387 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,945 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,077 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,736 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,736 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,106 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,359 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,898 | 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 Kayde a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 975 Americans recorded as Kayde, 35% are girls and 65% boys. In 2025 it went to 45 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Kayde: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayde, and how old are they?
An estimated 964 Americans named Kayde and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 729 people named Kayde (371 women and girls, 358 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 696 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 61,852 babies since 1880, Kayde is the fourth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 2,580 babies (1.7%), again the fourth 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 Kayde
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 Kayde and names like it
- Compare Kayde and CadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKayde peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayde since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kayde.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kayde alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.