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Kady

#9,140 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kady has been given to 2,885 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #9,140 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 134 recorded.

Babies named Kady, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kady: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kady means

Kady is a given name.

The naming story behind Kady

Wikidata records Kady as a given name. The entity identifier is Q25126017, 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, 2,885 girls were recorded with the name Kady between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 134 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,194 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,556 in 2020 to #9,140 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,650 in 2015 to #9,140 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 Kady?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,140
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kady 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kady. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kadys were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,885
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (958).

Is Kady 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
−2,360
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,584
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,490
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.2%
Peak was 2008 (134)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,194
1987

Spellings of Kady

Kady is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 59.5% against Kady'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 Kady is used

Across 1910–2025, Kady was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 137,674 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Nevada1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Kady has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kady around the world

Where Kady 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
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2024
    #541
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #1,492
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1986–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kady

People whose public names include Kady, 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.

Kady in other languages

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

CadyKadi

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

Kady by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,140
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,584
Best rank ever
#1,194
1987
Peak year
2008
134 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,885
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Kady

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

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Names with a curve like Kady

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

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Sibling names for Kady

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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