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Cadance vs Cadin

American parents have registered 951 Cadances since 1880, against 665 Cadins. Cadance is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cadance against Cadin, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cadance Cadin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 31 years in which either name was published, Cadance for 22 years and Cadin for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cadance Cadin
Total US births 951665
Most in one year 10881
Babies in 2025 75
Estimated living today 940660
Median age today 1820
Peak year 20042005
Best rank 1,769th girls1,752nd boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd12,008th
First recorded 20021993
Girls / boys 946 / 516 / 649

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cadins alive today are over 20; half the Cadances are over 18. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cadance and Cadin.