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Cady

#9,571 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cady has been given to 2,454 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #9,571 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 155 recorded.

Babies named Cady, 2025

1 in 332,000

Cady over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cady: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cady means

Cady is a given name.

The naming story behind Cady

Wikidata records Cady as a given name. The entity identifier is Q16275135, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,434 girls were recorded with the name Cady between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 155 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,136 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,904 in 2020 to #9,571 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,319 in 2015 to #9,571 in 2025.

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Cady between 1985 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1985; its best national rank was #5,212 in 1985.

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 Cady?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,571
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cady 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cady. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cadys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cady was born before 1997 — so the typical Cady is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,434
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (1,082).

Is Cady 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
−1,914
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,667
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,252
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.5%
Peak was 1992 (155)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,136
1992

Spellings of Cady

Cady is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 60.4% against Cady's 0.04%.

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 Cady is used

Across 1910–2025, Cady was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 181,918 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8Arizona1 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. Cady has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cady around the world

Where Cady 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
    1996–2019
    #3,541
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    2005–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #1,861
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Cady

People whose public names include Cady, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cady in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cady. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kady

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cady by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,571
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,667
Best rank ever
#1,136
1992
Peak year
1992
155 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,434
Count in 2025
10

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,212
1985
Peak year
1985
7 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cady

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

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Names with a curve like Cady

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cady, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Cady

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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