Cade

Where Cade comes from

* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cade
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #3,798 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Cade McNown born
    All-American college football player, professional football player, quarterback
  3. 2001
    Peak, #201
    1,811 babies named Cade — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2003
    Cade Cowell born
    American soccer player
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #347.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Cade Cowell · American soccer player, born 2003
  • Cade McNown · All-American college football player, professional football player, quarterback, born 1977
  • Cade Fairchild · American ice hockey player, born 1989
  • Cade Otton · American football player, born 1999
  • Cade Smith · Canadian baseball player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.