Kayde
Masculine · “a cask or barrel”
Kayde is given to both — 638 boys and 337 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Kayde is Cade rewritten twice over — a K for the C and a y in the middle — and Cade itself is an English surname with a barrel in it. Medieval trades made a great many names, and the cooper's cask made this one.
How old is the name Kayde?
Kayde first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Kayde is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Kayde are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kayde most popular?
Kayde peaked in 2023, reaching #2614 nationally. Today it ranks #2798, 184 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cade to Kayde
The story of Kayde
Cade is an English surname of the ordinary occupational and descriptive kind, recorded from the medieval period. It came to America and stayed a surname for a long time before the recent turn toward short blunt first names lifted it forward alongside Cash, Beck, Kane and Cole. The respellings arrived immediately after: Cade became Kade, and Kade became Kayde, each version keeping the sound and changing the letters. The y in the middle does the same work the K does — it marks the name as a choice.
Meaningscholars disagree
a cask or barrel — or a hand-reared lamb
Middle English cade meant a barrel or cask, and the surname was given to those who made or carried them. A second English cade means a young animal reared by hand after losing its mother — a cade lamb — and it produced its own nickname surname. Both are documented and the surname Cade descends from one or the other depending on the family. The Kayde spelling is modern American and carries neither meaning any more clearly than the other.
How the name formed
- cade
- Cade
- Kade
- Kayde
Related forms: Cade · Kade
Pronouncing Kayde
KAYD
One syllable, rhyming with made. Said exactly as Cade and Kade; the extra letters change the look and nothing else.
Nicknames for Kayde
Limited
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
- 2000
- Most boys named
- 202350 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2614reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −2.2%45 in 2025, from 46
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.
Kayde in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cade in English — spelling variant
- Kade in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Missouri, North Carolina.
Kaydes among us
people named Kayde are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 37,957 born in 2025 was named Kayde
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kayde
- #2798
- Kayde on the 2025 chart
- #737
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kayde went to 45 boys in 2025, but Cayde, Kaide and Caide are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 192, which makes it the 737th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,061 places above the chart.
- Cayde129
- Kayde45
- Kaide12
- Caide6
About 1 boy in 8,896 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,957 for Kayde 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 Sipriano test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kayde's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sipriano climbed just as high around 1923, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sipriano's path sketches the road Kayde is walking now.
Kayde 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
Where Kayde is headed
Kayde should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kayde beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kayde in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and said correctly by everyone at first sight.
- A documented English surname behind it rather than an assembled sound.
- Short and blunt, which pairs cleanly with a long surname.
- Cade, Kade, Kayde and Caide are four live spellings of one sound and none is standard.
- The spelling will be given letter by letter every time the name is written down.
- One syllable leaves nothing to shorten and no longer form to grow into.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaydes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Kayde are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kayde?
- Kayde is one of 4 recorded spellings. Cayde is the more common one — 129 births in 2025 against 45 for Kayde.
- How popular is the name Kayde in 2025?
- Kayde ranks #2798 among US boy names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kayde?
- About 1 in every 37,957 US boys born in 2025 was named Kayde — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kayde with classmates?
- Kayde will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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