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Cadance vs Cadyn

American parents have registered 1,469 Cadyns since 1880, against 951 Cadances. Cadyn is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cadance against Cadyn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cadance Cadyn

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 30 years in which either name was published, Cadyn for 29 years and Cadance for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Cadance Cadyn
Total US births 9511,469
Most in one year 108142
Babies in 2025 714
Estimated living today 9401,500
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20042008
Best rank 1,769th girls1,639th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd6,143rd
First recorded 20021993
Girls / boys 946 / 5407 / 1,062

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Cadance Cadyn
England and Wales 714

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 Cadyn.