Cade
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #248 for boys in 2025, 1,392 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 1,811 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 34,772since 1953
Cade over time
Rank among boys' names. Cade has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #248 | 1,392 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #272 | 1,265 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #280 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #292 | 1,170 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #338 | 961 |
| 2020 | — | #376 | 823 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #397 | 787 |
| 2018 | — | #386 | 830 | |
| 2017 | — | #445 | 697 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #410 | 781 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #364 | 892 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #361 | 880 |
| 2013 | — | #375 | 807 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #369 | 821 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #347 | 867 |
| 2010 | — | #330 | 949 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #325 | 986 |
| 2008 | — | #309 | 1,074 | |
| 2007 | — | #294 | 1,173 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #287 | 1,215 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #286 | 1,162 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #253 | 1,309 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #221 | 1,576 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #208 | 1,716 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #201 | 1,811 |
| 2000 | — | #216 | 1,646 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #225 | 1,498 |
| 1998 | — | #336 | 806 | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #460 | 480 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #493 | 428 |
| 1995 | — | #516 | 393 | |
| 1994 | — | #591 | 303 | |
| 1993 | — | #696 | 221 | |
| 1992 | — | #825 | 163 | |
| 1991 | — | #885 | 142 | |
| 1990 | — | #881 | 136 | |
| 1989 | — | #962 | 112 | |
| 1988 | — | #943 | 104 | |
| 1987 | — | #904 | 108 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,008 | 84 | |
| 1985 | — | #897 | 102 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,054 | 72 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,000 | 78 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,193 | 60 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,024 | 79 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,133 | 64 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,241 | 55 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,272 | 50 | |
| 1977 | — | #981 | 76 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,469 | 37 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,065 | 61 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,065 | 60 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,045 | 60 | |
| 1972 | — | #993 | 66 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
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| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cade! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cade
- 24 spots since 2024 (#272 → #248)
- 128 spots since 2020 (#376 → #248)
- 116 spots since 2015 (#364 → #248)
- Biggest jump: 1,286 spots in 1972 (#2,279 → #993)
- Biggest drop: 291 spots in 1978 (#981 → #1,272)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2001 at #201 (1,811 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1987–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,073 boys born in 2001 were named Cade (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,227 boys born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 39.3% of all boys named Cade (13,668) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,798 |
| 1960s | 35 | #2,627 (1966) | #2,958 |
| 1970s | 491 | #981 (1977) | #1,469 |
| 1980s | 863 | #897 (1985) | #1,012 |
| 1990s | 4,570 | #225 (1999) | #591 |
| 2000s | 13,668 | #201 (2001) | #260 |
| 2010s | 8,311 | #330 (2010) | #378 |
| 2020s | 6,829 | #248 (2025) | #301 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cade in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 350,601 of them was named Cade, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 4,426 of them was named Cade, which outranked 95.3% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).