Cadence

#1,022 for girls in 2025, 245 births · #1,992 for boys in 2025, 76 births
Given to girls 91.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
2007 · 1,707 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
22,430
since 1974

Cadence over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202009peak #199, 2007girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,022245#1,99276
2024#1,036243#1,79591
2023#952275#1,530115
2022#856326#2,02275
2021#757377#1,75092
2020#679417#1,539107
2019#545557#1,65897
2018#488645#1,76287
2017#422752#1,91875
2016#379867#1,90377
2015#338967#1,85379
2014#3351,003#1,88477
2013#3081,037#1,78281
2012#2911,091#1,94273
2011#2751,151#1,82478
2010#2271,382#1,62696
2009#2231,460#1,539107
2008#2121,612#1,93274
2007#1991,707#1,79581
2006#2141,599#1,63887
2005#2071,670#1,80172
2004#2181,552#1,62979
2003#476620#1,84564
2002#958232#2,12550
2001#2,12677#2,86432
2000#2,45762#3,15027
1999#2,40561#3,83419
1998#2,61452#4,01917
1997#2,65947#6,1009
1996#3,14937#5,18711
1995#3,58530#5,9289
1994#3,03838
1993#3,68129#8,7005
1992#4,84920#7,4226
1991#4,80820
1990#4,86819
1989#4,84818
1988#4,49619
1987#5,92312
1986#7,1349
1985#6,03111
1984#6,8109
1983#10,2755
1982#9,2376
1981#6,32310
1980#5,91211
1979#6,6969
1978#6,3859
1977#7,5677
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1974#5,36010
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five girls were named Cadence! It came in at #5,360, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Cadence
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 14 spots since 2024 (#1,036#1,022)
  • 343 spots since 2020 (#679#1,022)
  • 684 spots since 2015 (#338#1,022)
  • Biggest jump: 1,168 spots in 2002 (#2,126#958)
  • Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2020 (#545#679)
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 2007 at #199 (1,707 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 22 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2002–2023
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,106
  • Highest: 1 in 1,106 girls born in 2005 were named Cadence (0.09%)
  • Latest: 1 in 6,560 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
  • Its best rank, #199 in 2007, was only 1 in 1,126 (0.09%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 47.2% of all girls named Cadence (10,591) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
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  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s41#5,360 (1974)#6,798
1980s110#4,496 (1988)#6,699
1990s353#2,405 (1999)#3,566
2000s10,591#199 (2007)#729
2010s9,452#227 (2010)#361
2020s1,883#679 (2020)#884

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Cadence in 2009

girls
#223
1,460 births · 1 in 1,258 girls
boys
#1,539
107 births · 1 in 18,538 boys

Top girls' names in 2009

  1. #1Isabella22,321
  2. #2Emma17,910
  3. #3Olivia17,444
  4. #4Sophia16,951
  5. #5Ava15,877
  6. #6Emily15,366
  7. #7Madison15,257
  8. #8Abigail14,401
  9. #9Chloe11,922
  10. #10Mia11,438
  11. #223Cadence1,460

Top boys' names in 2009

  1. #1Jacob21,204
  2. #2Ethan19,858
  3. #3Michael18,964
  4. #4Alexander18,254
  5. #5William17,937
  6. #6Joshua17,671
  7. #7Daniel17,564
  8. #8Jayden17,316
  9. #9Noah17,262
  10. #10Christopher16,368
  11. #1,539Cadence107
More about 2009

girls

1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 1,258 of them was named Cadence, which outranked 98.9% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cadence
  1. #220Alexia1,474
  2. #221Christina1,472
  3. #222Lola1,465
  4. #223Cadence1,460
  5. #224Jazmine1,457
  6. #225Addyson1,456
  7. #226Melody1,452
Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. 4,137Taraji#5,013#876
  2. 2,107Bristol#2,773#666
  3. 836Analia#1,167#331
  4. 773Harlow#1,677#904
  5. 610Maliah#1,405#795
Fallers
  1. 1,450Dayami#754#2,204
  2. 953Mareli#723#1,676
  3. 773Mylie#839#1,612
  4. 517Marely#334#851
  5. 515Hillary#722#1,237

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 18,538 of them was named Cadence, which outranked 89.4% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cadence
  1. #1,529Louie108
  2. #1,529Rick108
  3. #1,529Tavian108
  4. #1,539Cadence107
  5. #1,539Daylin107
  6. #1,539Hyrum107
  7. #1,539Jacari107
  8. #1,546Adyn106
  9. #1,546Canon106
  10. #1,546Darin106

Tied with 6 names at #1,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. 951Knox#1,655#704
  2. 510Kellan#1,133#623
  3. 462Jaxen#1,329#867
  4. 422Bentley#936#514
  5. 354Archer#1,037#683
Fallers
  1. 493Yurem#995#1,488
  2. 222Cordell#786#1,008
  3. 212Shamar#926#1,138
  4. 201Trevin#797#998
  5. 198Glenn#865#1,063

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2009