Kaydence
Feminine · Latin roots · “rhythm”
Kaydence is given to both — 17,574 girls and 885 boys since 1880. See Kaydence as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Behind Kaydence sits an ordinary English word with a lovely job: cadence, the rise and fall of a voice, the closing chords that tell you a piece of music is coming to rest, the steady count of feet on a march. The name says itself the way the word does — two beats, the first one long. The K spelling is an American one, part of the same habit that turned Caitlin into Kaitlyn.
How old is the name Kaydence?
Kaydence first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Kaydence alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 17,500 people named Kaydence are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaydence most popular?
Kaydence peaked in 2009, reaching #254 nationally. Today it ranks #1291, 1,037 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cadentia (Latin, a falling) to Kaydence
The story of Kaydence
Cadence traveled into English from Latin cadentia by way of Italian cadenza and French, and for centuries it stayed a technical word: musicians used it for the settling chords at the end of a phrase, drill sergeants for the counted step, writers for the fall of a sentence. Its use as a girl's given name in the United States is recent, arriving with a wave of word-names and rhythm-names in the opening years of this century. Kaydence is the K-spelled version, formed the way Kayla, Kaylee and Kaitlyn were formed — swapping a soft C for a K and marking the long A outright. That makes it a genuinely American name with a very old word inside it.
Meaning
rhythm; the falling close of a musical phrase
The English word cadence comes from Latin cadere, to fall, through Italian cadenza — the sense being a phrase that falls to its resting note. Kaydence is a respelled form of the word used as a name.
How the name formed
- cadentiaLatin, a falling
- cadenzaItalian
- cadenceFrench and English
- Cadence
- Kaydence
Related forms: Cadence · Kadence · Caydence · Cadenza
Pronouncing Kaydence
KAY-dinss
Two syllables, stress on the first, exactly like the English word cadence. Some families say the second syllable fully as KAY-denss; both are heard.
Nicknames for Kaydence
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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
- 20091,288 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #254reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −12.6%173 in 2025, from 198
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.
Kaydence in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cadence in English — spelling variant
- Kadence in English — spelling variant
- Caydence in English — spelling variant
- Cadenza in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, North Carolina.
Kaydences among us
people named Kaydence are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 9,291 born in 2025 was named Kaydence
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaydence
- #1291
- Kaydence on the 2025 chart
- #713
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaydence went to 173 girls in 2025, but Kaidence, Caydence 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 — 578 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 6,455 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 9,291 for Kaydence 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 Elvira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaydence's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Elvira climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Elvira's path sketches the road Kaydence is walking now.
Kaydence 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 Kaydence is headed
Kaydence is easing off slowly — about 30% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Kaydence beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaydence in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The word behind it is plain English, so the meaning needs no explaining once someone hears it.
- Kay is a ready-made short form with a long independent record as a given name.
- Two syllables with the stress up front — easy to call across a room and easy for a young child to say.
- The sound sits comfortably beside familiar names like Kayla and Cadence without duplicating them.
- The spelling will need saying out loud. Cadence, Kadence and Caydence all exist, and people who hear the name first will most often guess the C version.
- The K respelling places the name firmly in a particular era of American naming, and the name is easing back from its high point — it may read as date-stamped in the way Kaylee or Jaden do.
- There is no older history to fall back on: no saints, no queens, no ancestral line. What it has is a good word and a clear sound, which for many families is enough.
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Feminine · Latin roots · #1291 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kaydences are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 17,500 people named Kaydence are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaydence?
- Kaydence is the most-used spelling in US records — 173 of the 249 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kaidence, Caydence and Caidence.
- How popular is the name Kaydence in 2025?
- Kaydence ranks #1291 among US girl names in 2025, with 173 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaydence?
- About 1 in every 9,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Kaydence — 173 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaydence with classmates?
- Kaydence will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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