Kaydence
Kaydence is given to both girls and boys: 173 girls and 46 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,292 among girls’ names and #2,780 among boys’, #2,087 among all names counting both); 18,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,300 Americans named Kaydence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaydence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaydence mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaydence is “a female given name.”
Fanciful variant of Cadence.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaydence?
#1,292 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaydence fell from #349 in 2015 to #1,292 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.53 to 0.11 per 1,000.
1,309 babies in 2010, the peak
Kaydence peaked in 2010, when 1,309 babies were given it (1,271 girls, #256 among girls’ names). The 219 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 173 | #1,292 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 198 | #1,199 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 240 | #1,048 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 315 | #886 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 328 | #843 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 407 | #694 | 0.25 |
| 2019 | 478 | #627 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 605 | #518 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 637 | #491 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 851 | #388 | 0.48 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 948 | #349 | 0.53 |
| 2014 | 1,123 | #290 | 0.63 |
| 2013 | 1,170 | #274 | 0.67 |
| 2012 | 1,200 | #272 | 0.68 |
| 2011 | 1,222 | #262 | 0.69 |
| 2010 | 1,271 | #256 | 0.72 |
| 2009 | 1,288 | #254 | 0.70 |
| 2008 | 1,175 | #286 | 0.62 |
| 2007 | 1,023 | #326 | 0.53 |
| 2006 | 913 | #360 | 0.48 |
| 2005 | 875 | #358 | 0.47 |
| 2004 | 830 | #377 | 0.45 |
| 2003 | 234 | #986 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,317 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaydence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 18,459 Americans recorded as Kaydence, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaydence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaydence, and how old are they?
18,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,459 Americans ever recorded as Kaydence. The median Kaydence alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 13,652 people named Kaydence (13,245 women and girls, 407 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,470 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 10,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,110 |
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 Kaydence born?
The states with the most babies named Kaydence are Texas, North Carolina and California, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,671 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #809 | 1.2× |
| California | 12 | #1,798 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,495 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #783 | 1.3× |
| Arkansas | 8 | #402 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,215 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 6 | #1,950 | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 6 | #770 | 1.4× |
Where Kaydence is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaydence is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 2002 it was given 1.9 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 Kaydence 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, Kaydence is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 219 of their 859 babies (25%), 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 Kaydence
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 Kaydence and names like it
- Compare Kaydence and CadenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaydence peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaydence since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Kaydence.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaydence alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.