Cayde
#1,409 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cayde has been given to 1,676 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,409 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 207 recorded.
Babies named Cayde, 2025
1 in 25,700
Cayde 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cayde?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 25,700
- 129 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 13,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,409
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 17,814 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cayde 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 17,814 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cayde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caydes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cayde was born before 2020 — so the typical Cayde is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 56.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,676
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 56.7% of all recorded uses (950).
Is Cayde 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
- −174
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −213
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,011
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.86×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 62.3%
- Peak was 2019 (207)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.3% average annual change
Spellings of Cayde
Cayde is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 21.3% against Cayde's 0.10%.
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 Cayde is used
Across 2016–2025, Cayde was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 14,961 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Cayde around the world
Where Cayde 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 & Wales2007–2025#2,952in 2025
- Scotland2018–2021#533in 2021
- Canada2015–2024#1,536in 2024
- South Australia2006–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cayde by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cayde
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cayde
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.