Cadie
Feminine
Cady is a surname with a suffragist behind it. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls and spent fifty years arguing for the vote; she insisted on keeping her own family name in the middle of her married one, which was itself a statement in 1840. Cadie is that sound spelled as a first name, and it serves Cadence and Katie too.
How old is the name Cadie?
Cadie first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Cadie alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 800 people named Cadie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cadie most popular?
Cadie peaked in 1993, reaching #3422 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 11,520 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Cadie
American naming has always been willing to take a surname, a shortening or a word and treat them as the same thing once they sound alike. Cadie sits at the meeting point of three: the Cady surname, which has real American history attached; Cadence, which became a girls' name in the 2000s; and Katie, which has been one for centuries. The record shows Cadie from 1978 with a peak in 1993, which is early for the Cadence route and suggests the other two.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No single derivation. As a short form of Cadence, the source is the Latin cadere, to fall — a musical cadence is where a phrase comes down. As a spelling of Katie, it goes back to Katherine, whose meaning has never been established. As the surname Cady, it is Norman French and its origin is disputed. Three roads and no way to choose.
Pronouncing Cadie
KAY-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Cadie, Cady, Kadie and Kaydee are all said identically, which is why the letters have to be given every time.
Nicknames for Cadie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 200736 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3422reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- −54.5%5 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cadies among us
people named Cadie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Cadie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cadie
- #14942
- Cadie on the 2025 chart
- #942
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cadie went to 5 girls in 2025, but Kadie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 18, which makes it the 942nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,000 places above the chart.
- Kadie13
- Cadie5
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Cadie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darrelyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cadie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darrelyn climbed just as high around 1950, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darrelyn's path sketches the road Cadie is walking now.
Cadie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Cadie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cadie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cade is available as a short form and is entirely current for either sex.
- It shortens three separate names, so it fits a family with any of them behind it.
- Five letters, two syllables, and readable on sight.
- Kady, Cady and Katie all sit close by and will be written instead.
- It reads as a nickname to most people, and the question about the longer form arrives regularly.
- There is no documented meaning, only three possible parents.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cadies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Cadie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cadie?
- Cadie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kadie is the more common one — 13 births in 2025 against 5 for Cadie.
- How popular is the name Cadie in 2025?
- Cadie ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cadie?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Cadie — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cadie with classmates?
- Cadie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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