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
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 1,707 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,430since 1974
Cadence over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,022 | 245 | #1,992 | 76 |
| 2024 | #1,036 | 243 | #1,795 | 91 |
| 2023 | #952 | 275 | #1,530 | 115 |
| 2022 | #856 | 326 | #2,022 | 75 |
| 2021 | #757 | 377 | #1,750 | 92 |
| 2020 | #679 | 417 | #1,539 | 107 |
| 2019 | #545 | 557 | #1,658 | 97 |
| 2018 | #488 | 645 | #1,762 | 87 |
| 2017 | #422 | 752 | #1,918 | 75 |
| 2016 | #379 | 867 | #1,903 | 77 |
| 2015 | #338 | 967 | #1,853 | 79 |
| 2014 | #335 | 1,003 | #1,884 | 77 |
| 2013 | #308 | 1,037 | #1,782 | 81 |
| 2012 | #291 | 1,091 | #1,942 | 73 |
| 2011 | #275 | 1,151 | #1,824 | 78 |
| 2010 | #227 | 1,382 | #1,626 | 96 |
| 2009 | #223 | 1,460 | #1,539 | 107 |
| 2008 | #212 | 1,612 | #1,932 | 74 |
| 2007 | #199 | 1,707 | #1,795 | 81 |
| 2006 | #214 | 1,599 | #1,638 | 87 |
| 2005 | #207 | 1,670 | #1,801 | 72 |
| 2004 | #218 | 1,552 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | #476 | 620 | #1,845 | 64 |
| 2002 | #958 | 232 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #2,126 | 77 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #2,457 | 62 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #2,614 | 52 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #2,659 | 47 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2007 at #199 (1,707 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2002–2023
- 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
- 47.2% of all girls named Cadence (10,591) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 41 | #5,360 (1974) | #6,798 |
| 1980s | 110 | #4,496 (1988) | #6,699 |
| 1990s | 353 | #2,405 (1999) | #3,566 |
| 2000s | 10,591 | #199 (2007) | #729 |
| 2010s | 9,452 | #227 (2010) | #361 |
| 2020s | 1,883 | #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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 3,013 of them was named Cadence, which outranked 97.0% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 18,497 of them was named Cadence, which outranked 88.3% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,652Isaak98
- #1,652Shai98
- #1,652West98
- #1,658Cadence97
- #1,658Ayven97
- #1,658Boyd97
- #1,658Bryer97
- #1,670Brigham96
- #1,670Morris96
- #1,670Neymar96
Tied with 11 names at #1,658; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.