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Kadi

Girls' name

Short form of Katariina

Kadi has been given to 954 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1989, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Kadi, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kadi: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Katariina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kadi means

Kadi is a short form of Katariina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kadi is used in Estonian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kadi → Katariina → Katarina → Αἰκατερίνη. The family’s proposed meaning is “Hecate or each of the two”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements Hekátē and hekáteros.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katariina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 954 girls were recorded with the name Kadi between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1989; its best national rank was #2,626 in 1989.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kadi?

Kadi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kadi 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kadis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadi was born before 1996 — so the typical Kadi is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
954
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (334).

Is Kadi 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 1989 (43)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,626
1989

Spellings of Kadi

Kadi is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 12.6% against Kadi's 0.05%.

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 Kadi is used

Across 1910–2025, Kadi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 756,766 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Missouri1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Kadi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kadi around the world

Where Kadi 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
    1997–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2017
    #446
    in 2017
  • France
    1978–2025
    #2,467
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1982–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kadi 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
#2,626
1989
Peak year
1989
43 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
954
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kadi

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

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Sibling names for Kadi

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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