Kaede

Where Kaede comes from

The dictionaries list Kaede as a given name — a Japanese female given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1997
    First appearance
    #13,724 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #6,987
    17 babies named Kaede — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #13,006.
  4. 2023
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A Japanese female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Kaede hasn't yet.

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.