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Cadance vs Cadon

American parents have registered 951 Cadances since 1880, against 238 Cadons. Cadance is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cadance Cadon

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 25 years in which either name was published, Cadance for 23 years and Cadon for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cadance Cadon
Total US births 951238
Most in one year 10829
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 940240
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20042007
Best rank 1,769th girls3,591st boys
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 20022000
Girls / boys 946 / 50 / 238

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Cadance Cadon
England and Wales 76

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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