Kady
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 122 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,885since 1970
Kady over time
Rank among girls' names. Kady has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 |
| 2011 | #3,723 | 41 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 |
| 2008 | #1,664 | 134 |
| 2007 | #3,247 | 52 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 |
| 2005 | #2,204 | 83 |
| 2004 | #2,370 | 72 |
| 2003 | #2,187 | 79 |
| 2002 | #2,100 | 81 |
| 2001 | #2,288 | 70 |
| 2000 | #2,174 | 73 |
| 1999 | #2,051 | 75 |
| 1998 | #1,845 | 83 |
| 1997 | #1,671 | 94 |
| 1996 | #1,792 | 82 |
| 1995 | #1,439 | 112 |
| 1994 | #1,444 | 110 |
| 1993 | #1,409 | 115 |
| 1992 | #1,713 | 87 |
| 1991 | #1,710 | 85 |
| 1990 | #1,372 | 115 |
| 1989 | #1,600 | 87 |
| 1988 | #1,465 | 93 |
| 1987 | #1,192 | 122 |
| 1986 | #1,254 | 108 |
| 1985 | #1,219 | 113 |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kady! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kady is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#399 · 1 in 3,190
- Washington#541 · 1 in 3,886
- Colorado#554 · 1 in 4,366
- Michigan#637 · 1 in 6,281
- Pennsylvania#780 · 1 in 8,591
Best ever in a state: #295 in Nevada, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #399 | 5 | 1 in 3,190 |
| Washington | #541 | 7 | 1 in 3,886 |
| Colorado | #554 | 5 | 1 in 4,366 |
| Michigan | #637 | 9 | 1 in 6,281 |
| Pennsylvania | #780 | 8 | 1 in 8,591 |
| California | #1,168 | 17 | 1 in 12,218 |
| Texas | #1,216 | 10 | 1 in 13,167 |
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See more about Kady
- 2,218 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #8,860)
- 3,373 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #8,860)
- 4,276 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #8,860)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1987 at #1,192 (122 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,111 girls born in 2008 were named Kady (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,192 in 1987, was only 1 in 14,251 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all girls named Kady (958) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 74 | #3,512 (1978) | #5,617 |
| 1980s | 602 | #1,192 (1987) | #3,214 |
| 1990s | 958 | #1,372 (1990) | #1,645 |
| 2000s | 780 | #1,664 (2008) | #2,354 |
| 2010s | 347 | #3,203 (2010) | #4,307 |
| 2020s | 124 | #4,295 (2022) | #6,216 |
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.
Kady in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
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1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 15,885 of them was named Kady, which outranked 90.2% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,249Jo109
- #1,249Lakia109
- #1,249Mindi109
- #1,254Kady108
- #1,254Charlie108
- #1,254Ivory108
- #1,254Malia108
- #1,260Bernice107
- #1,260Cami107
- #1,260Consuelo107
Tied with 5 names at #1,254; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.