Cade

Where Cade comes from

* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cade
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Cade through the years
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #3,798 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Cade McNown born
    All-American college football player, professional football player, quarterback
  3. 2001
    Peak, #201
    1,811 babies named Cade, the most in any year.
  4. 2003
    Cade Cowell born
    American soccer player
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #347.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Cade Cowell · American soccer player, born 2003
  • Cade McNown · All-American college football player, professional football player, quarterback, born 1977
  • Cade Fairchild · American ice hockey player, born 1989
  • Cade Otton · American football player, born 1999
  • Cade Smith · Canadian baseball player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.