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Cade vs Cadin

American parents have registered 34,918 Cades since 1880, against 665 Cadins. Cade is still ahead, with 1,398 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cade against Cadin, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cade 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

Cade has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1953 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Cade had 1,170 and Cadin had 81.

Side by side

  Cade Cadin
Total US births 34,918665
Most in one year 1,81781
Babies in 2025 1,3985
Estimated living today 34,000660
Median age today 1820
Peak year 20012005
Best rank 201st boys1,752nd boys
Rank in 2025 248th12,008th
First recorded 19531993
Girls / boys 146 / 34,77216 / 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 Cades 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: Cade and Cadin.