How Many People Are Named Cade?
people named Cade are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 9,944 people in the US has this name
Based on 34,918 babies named Cade in Social Security records from 1953 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,817 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was originally derived from a nickname meaning "round" in Old English.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cade in English. Counting Cade and these spellings together, about 57,625 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Cade (99.6%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cade alive today is about 17 years old, and 92% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cade first appears in the records in 1953 and was given most often in 2001, to 1,817 babies. In 2025, 1,398 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1953 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cade has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #201, in 2001. In 2025 it ranked #248.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #248 |
| Best rank | #201 (2001) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #248 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cade alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cade were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,379 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cade was given 3.1 times as often in South Dakota, 2.7 times in Louisiana and 2.6 times in Iowa.
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