Cadance
#12,146 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cadance has been given to 951 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #12,146 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 108 recorded.
Babies named Cadance, 2025
1 in 474,000
Cadance over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cadance?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,146
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cadance sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cadance. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cadances were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cadance was born before 2007 — so the typical Cadance is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 66.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 946
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 66.3% of all recorded uses (627).
Is Cadance rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +3,564
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,090
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,805
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.44×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.5%
- Peak was 2004 (108)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Cadance
Cadance is not the most common spelling — Candace is, with 64.5% against Cadance's 0.72%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cadance is used
Across 1910–2025, Cadance was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 450,835 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Indiana1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7Missouri1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cadance has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cadance around the world
Where Cadance ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2004–2007#4,294in 2007
- Canada2004–2013#2,555in 2013
- South Australia2000–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cadance by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Cadance
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cadance
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.