Caydence
Feminine · “A falling”
Caydence is given to both — 3,588 girls and 310 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Cadence is a musical word doing service as a name, and Caydence is the American respelling that makes the first syllable unmissable. The Latin underneath means a falling — the way a phrase of music comes down to rest at its end.
How old is the name Caydence?
Caydence first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Caydence alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 3,600 people named Caydence are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Caydence most popular?
Caydence peaked in 2009, reaching #904 nationally. Today it ranks #5238, 4,334 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cadentia to Caydence
The story of Caydence
The word entered English from Italian music theory in the fifteenth century and has been ordinary in English ever since. Its use as a girl's name is entirely American and entirely recent: Cadence appears in the birth records in the late 1990s, climbs steeply through the 2000s, and enters the top two hundred. That kind of climb reliably produces respellings, and Kadence, Caydence, Kaydence and Cadince all appear behind it. Caydence peaks in 2009, a year or two after Cadence itself, which is the usual pattern — the variant crests just after the original.
Meaning
A falling; the close of a musical phrase
From Latin cadentia, a falling, from cadere, to fall, through Italian cadenza and Old French cadence. In music it is the harmonic figure that closes a phrase; in speech it is the rise and fall of a voice; in marching it is the beat. All three senses are current in English. The Cayd- spelling is American and carries no separate history.
How the name formed
- cadentia
- cadence
- Cadence
- Caydence
Related forms: Cadenza · Cadence · Cadence
Pronouncing Caydence
KAY-dunss
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical to Cadence. The y spelling only makes explicit the long a that the standard spelling already has.
Nicknames for Caydence
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
- 2002
- Most girls named
- 2009301 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #904reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −29.4%24 in 2025, from 34
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.
Caydence in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cadenza in Italian — related form
- Cadence in French — same name
- Cadence in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Caydences among us
people named Caydence are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 66,969 born in 2025 was named Caydence
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Caydence
- #5238
- Caydence on the 2025 chart
- #713
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Caydence went to 24 girls in 2025, but Kaydence, Kaidence and Caidence are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 249, which makes it the 713th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,525 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 6,455 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 66,969 for Caydence 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 Dawne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Caydence's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dawne climbed just as high around 1965, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dawne's path sketches the road Caydence is walking now.
Caydence 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
Caydence beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Caydence in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is an ordinary English word with a settled and pleasant meaning.
- Cady works as a warm short form.
- The respelling removes any doubt about the first vowel.
- Cadence is the standard spelling and will be written instead.
- Cadence, Kadence, Kaydence and Caydence are four spellings of one word.
- It is tightly dated to the 2000s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Caydences are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,600 people named Caydence are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Caydence?
- Caydence is one of 4 recorded spellings. Kaydence is the more common one — 173 births in 2025 against 24 for Caydence.
- How popular is the name Caydence in 2025?
- Caydence ranks #5238 among US girl names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Caydence?
- About 1 in every 66,969 US girls born in 2025 was named Caydence — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Caydence with classmates?
- Caydence will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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