Kaydence
Masculine · “a falling”
Kaydence is given to both — 885 boys and 17,574 girls since 1880. See Kaydence as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Kaydence is Cadence respelled, and cadence is a falling — the word comes from the Latin for falling down, and it named the way a line of music or a line of speech comes to rest before it named anything else.
How old is the name Kaydence?
Kaydence first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Kaydence is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Kaydence are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaydence most popular?
Kaydence peaked in 2021, reaching #2134 nationally. Today it ranks #2765, 631 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cadere to Kaydence
The story of Kaydence
The musical sense arrived in English through Italian in the sixteenth century, and the wider sense — the rise and fall of a voice, the beat of marching feet — followed it. As a given name Cadence is very recent and belongs to a small American group taken from music: Harmony, Melody, Lyric, Aria, Cadence. The K spellings came almost immediately after, as they do now with every popular name, and Kaydence, Kadence and Caydence all circulate. The name is given far more often to girls, which a boy carrying it will encounter.
Meaning
a falling; the close of a musical phrase
Latin cadentia, from cadere, 'to fall' — the same verb behind cascade, decay and accident. Italian took it as cadenza and gave it to music, where a cadence is the sequence of chords that brings a phrase to a close. English uses it for the rhythm of speech as well. The reading is documented; the K spelling is American and changes nothing.
How the name formed
- cadere
- cadentia
- cadenza
- cadence
- Kaydence
Related forms: Cadenza · Cadence
Pronouncing Kaydence
KAY-dence
Two syllables, stress on the first, said exactly as the ordinary word. The K changes the look and not the sound.
Nicknames for Kaydence
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
- 2003
- Most boys named
- 202167 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2134reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −17.9%46 in 2025, from 56
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
- Cadenza in Italian — related form
- Cadence in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, North Carolina, Georgia.
Kaydences among us
people named Kaydence are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 37,132 born in 2025 was named Kaydence
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaydence
- #2765
- Kaydence on the 2025 chart
- #859
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaydence went to 46 boys in 2025, but Kaidence and Caydence are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 69, which makes it the 859th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,906 places above the chart.
- Kaydence46
- Kaidence16
- Caydence7
About 1 boy in 24,755 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,132 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 Talib 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: Talib climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Talib'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 should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every English speaker already knows the word, so it is never mispronounced.
- Kay and Kade are both ready short forms and both are established names.
- The meaning is precise and musical rather than an abstract virtue.
- It is given overwhelmingly to girls, so a boy will be assumed to be a girl on paper.
- Cadence is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected constantly.
- Kaydence, Kadence, Caydence and Cadence are four live spellings of one sound.
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Masculine · #2765 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 900 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 — 46 of the 69 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kaidence and Caydence.
- How popular is the name Kaydence in 2025?
- Kaydence ranks #2765 among US boy names in 2025, with 46 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaydence?
- About 1 in every 37,132 US boys born in 2025 was named Kaydence — 46 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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