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Kadie

#8,085 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kadie has been given to 2,630 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,085 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 112 recorded.

Babies named Kadie, 2025

1 in 255,000

Kadie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kadie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kadie means

Kadie is a given name.

The naming story behind Kadie

Wikidata records Kadie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q123167822, 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, 2,630 girls were recorded with the name Kadie between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 112 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,336 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,874 in 2020 to #8,085 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,540 in 2015 to #8,085 in 2025.

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 Kadie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,085
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kadie 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kadies were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,630
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (892).

Is Kadie 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
−1,012
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,789
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,545
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.6%
Peak was 1990 (112)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,336
1988

Spellings of Kadie

Kadie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 21.7% against Kadie's 0.11%.

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 Kadie is used

Across 1910–2025, Kadie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 157,256 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

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. Kadie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kadie around the world

Where Kadie 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2011
    #363
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    1992–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1994–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kadie

People whose public names include Kadie, 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.

Kadie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,085
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,789
Best rank ever
#1,336
1988
Peak year
1990
112 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,630
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Kadie

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

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Names with a curve like Kadie

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

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Sibling names for Kadie

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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