Kadence
#1,611 for girls in 2025, 129 births · #2,006 for boys in 2025, 75 births
Given to girls 87.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 911 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,618since 1994
Kadence 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 | #1,611 | 129 | #2,006 | 75 |
| 2024 | #1,536 | 139 | #1,878 | 85 |
| 2023 | #1,446 | 154 | #1,632 | 106 |
| 2022 | #1,343 | 175 | #1,634 | 106 |
| 2021 | #1,242 | 189 | #1,688 | 97 |
| 2020 | #1,004 | 253 | #1,647 | 97 |
| 2019 | #1,016 | 253 | #1,582 | 105 |
| 2018 | #893 | 302 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2017 | #714 | 402 | #1,844 | 80 |
| 2016 | #700 | 411 | #2,207 | 61 |
| 2015 | #574 | 534 | #1,853 | 79 |
| 2014 | #514 | 602 | #1,679 | 91 |
| 2013 | #482 | 630 | #2,182 | 60 |
| 2012 | #469 | 657 | #1,923 | 74 |
| 2011 | #468 | 631 | #2,077 | 64 |
| 2010 | #440 | 697 | #2,375 | 53 |
| 2009 | #401 | 786 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #391 | 825 | #2,432 | 52 |
| 2007 | #384 | 858 | #2,602 | 47 |
| 2006 | #391 | 815 | #2,621 | 45 |
| 2005 | #344 | 911 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | #390 | 797 | #2,164 | 54 |
| 2003 | #869 | 276 | #2,507 | 41 |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kadence! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kadence
- 75 spots since 2024 (#1,536 → #1,611)
- 607 spots since 2020 (#1,004 → #1,611)
- 1,037 spots since 2015 (#574 → #1,611)
- Biggest jump: 952 spots in 2003 (#1,821 → #869)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 2018 (#714 → #893)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2005 at #344 (911 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2003–2018
- Highest: 1 in 2,028 girls born in 2005 were named Kadence (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,459 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.4% of all girls named Kadence (5,396) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 64 | #6,723 (1996) | #8,496 |
| 2000s | 5,396 | #344 (2005) | #1,912 |
| 2010s | 5,119 | #440 (2010) | #627 |
| 2020s | 1,039 | #1,004 (2020) | #1,364 |
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.
Kadence in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 357,151 of them was named Kadence, which outranked 14.8% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).