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 |
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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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 2,680 of them was named Kadence, which outranked 97.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 25,634 of them was named Kadence, which outranked 86.5% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,909Rehan75
- #1,909Robbie75
- #1,909Umar75
- #1,923Kadence74
- #1,923Brendyn74
- #1,923Caius74
- #1,923Deron74
- #1,942Anirudh73
- #1,942Boyd73
- #1,942Brodey73
Tied with 18 names at #1,923; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.