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Cadi

Girls' name

Short form of Catrin

Cadi has been given to 248 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Cadi, 2020

1 in 668,000

Cadi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cadi: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Catrin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cadi means

Cadi is a short form of Catrin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cadi is used in Welsh.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈka.di/ for Cadi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Catrin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 248 girls were recorded with the name Cadi between 1972 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1992; its best national rank was #5,294 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Cadi?

Cadi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cadi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cadi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cadis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cadi was born before 1998 — so the typical Cadi is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Cadi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (18)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,294
1992

Spellings of Cadi

Cadi is not the most common spelling — Sadie is, with 11.8% against Cadi's 0.02%.

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.

Cadi around the world

Where Cadi 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,229
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1975–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cadi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,294
1992
Peak year
1992
18 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
248
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cadi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cadi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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