Cade
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #248 for boys in 2025, 1,392 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 1,811 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 34,772since 1953
Cade over time
Rank among boys' names. Cade has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #248 | 1,392 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #272 | 1,265 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #280 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #292 | 1,170 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #338 | 961 |
| 2020 | — | #376 | 823 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #397 | 787 |
| 2018 | — | #386 | 830 | |
| 2017 | — | #445 | 697 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #410 | 781 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #364 | 892 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #361 | 880 |
| 2013 | — | #375 | 807 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #369 | 821 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #347 | 867 |
| 2010 | — | #330 | 949 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #325 | 986 |
| 2008 | — | #309 | 1,074 | |
| 2007 | — | #294 | 1,173 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #287 | 1,215 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #286 | 1,162 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #253 | 1,309 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #221 | 1,576 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #208 | 1,716 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #201 | 1,811 |
| 2000 | — | #216 | 1,646 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #225 | 1,498 |
| 1998 | — | #336 | 806 | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #460 | 480 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #493 | 428 |
| 1995 | — | #516 | 393 | |
| 1994 | — | #591 | 303 | |
| 1993 | — | #696 | 221 | |
| 1992 | — | #825 | 163 | |
| 1991 | — | #885 | 142 | |
| 1990 | — | #881 | 136 | |
| 1989 | — | #962 | 112 | |
| 1988 | — | #943 | 104 | |
| 1987 | — | #904 | 108 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,008 | 84 | |
| 1985 | — | #897 | 102 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,054 | 72 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,000 | 78 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,193 | 60 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,024 | 79 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,133 | 64 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,241 | 55 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,272 | 50 | |
| 1977 | — | #981 | 76 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,469 | 37 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,065 | 61 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,065 | 60 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,045 | 60 | |
| 1972 | — | #993 | 66 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
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| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cade! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cade is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Dakota#54 · 1 in 175
- Iowa#74 · 1 in 259
- Montana#78 · 1 in 239
- Louisiana#85 · 1 in 357
- North Dakota#88 · 1 in 258
Best ever in a state: #54 in South Dakota, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #54 | 22 | 1 in 175 |
| Iowa | #74 | 62 | 1 in 259 |
| Montana | #78 | 16 | 1 in 239 |
| Louisiana | #85 | 73 | 1 in 357 |
| North Dakota | #88 | 12 | 1 in 258 |
| Nebraska | #91 | 31 | 1 in 325 |
| Arkansas | #98 | 38 | 1 in 386 |
| Wisconsin | #100 | 67 | 1 in 432 |
| Minnesota | #103 | 64 | 1 in 456 |
| Utah | #106 | 53 | 1 in 400 |
| Oklahoma | #108 | 48 | 1 in 423 |
| Idaho | #113 | 20 | 1 in 389 |
| Kansas | #120 | 36 | 1 in 449 |
| Hawaii | #140 | 9 | 1 in 522 |
| Alabama | #143 | 34 | 1 in 710 |
| Mississippi | #150 | 21 | 1 in 699 |
| Oregon | #150 | 31 | 1 in 626 |
| New Hampshire | #156 | 7 | 1 in 821 |
| Colorado | #158 | 45 | 1 in 648 |
| Tennessee | #159 | 44 | 1 in 813 |
| Missouri | #169 | 40 | 1 in 836 |
| Indiana | #171 | 47 | 1 in 817 |
| Texas | #176 | 215 | 1 in 800 |
| Ohio | #178 | 69 | 1 in 989 |
| Illinois | #199 | 77 | 1 in 1,042 |
| West Virginia | #200 | 7 | 1 in 1,250 |
| South Carolina | #214 | 18 | 1 in 1,142 |
| North Carolina | #217 | 42 | 1 in 1,202 |
| Arizona | #219 | 38 | 1 in 996 |
| Pennsylvania | #220 | 46 | 1 in 1,395 |
| Michigan | #226 | 44 | 1 in 1,328 |
| Florida | #228 | 69 | 1 in 1,302 |
| Kentucky | #229 | 17 | 1 in 1,368 |
| Washington | #229 | 30 | 1 in 1,125 |
| Virginia | #232 | 29 | 1 in 1,406 |
| California | #262 | 154 | 1 in 1,589 |
| Georgia | #271 | 38 | 1 in 1,463 |
| Massachusetts | #279 | 16 | 1 in 2,224 |
| Nevada | #343 | 6 | 1 in 2,063 |
| Maryland | #345 | 13 | 1 in 2,176 |
| New Mexico | #362 | 5 | 1 in 2,110 |
| Connecticut | #370 | 6 | 1 in 3,001 |
| New Jersey | #395 | 16 | 1 in 3,009 |
| New York | #548 | 24 | 1 in 4,649 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cade
- 24 spots since 2024 (#272 → #248)
- 128 spots since 2020 (#376 → #248)
- 116 spots since 2015 (#364 → #248)
- Biggest jump: 1,286 spots in 1972 (#2,279 → #993)
- Biggest drop: 291 spots in 1978 (#981 → #1,272)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2001 at #201 (1,811 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1987–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,073 boys born in 2001 were named Cade (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,227 boys born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 39.3% of all boys named Cade (13,668) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,798 |
| 1960s | 35 | #2,627 (1966) | #2,958 |
| 1970s | 491 | #981 (1977) | #1,469 |
| 1980s | 863 | #897 (1985) | #1,012 |
| 1990s | 4,570 | #225 (1999) | #591 |
| 2000s | 13,668 | #201 (2001) | #260 |
| 2010s | 8,311 | #330 (2010) | #378 |
| 2020s | 6,829 | #248 (2025) | #301 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cade in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 300,104 of them was named Cade, which outranked 24.8% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,056Zyair7
- #12,056Zyann7
- #12,056Zyanya7
- #13,521Cade6
- #13,521Aaleah6
- #13,521Aalyssa6
- #13,521Aamira6
- #15,352Aakanksha5
- #15,352Aala5
- #15,352Aalaya5
Tied with 1,830 names at #13,521; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 1,073 of them was named Cade, which outranked 98.4% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.