Cadance
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KAY-dens
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Cadance is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “rhythm, flow of sound”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Cadance mean?
English: variant of Cadence, from Latin cadere 'to fall'
“rhythm, flow of sound”
Is Cadance a girl's or a boy's name?
Cadance is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cadance in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Cadance, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 108 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had more girls named Cadance than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Cadance in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 605 girls in the US were given Cadance or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #509, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Cadance in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,023 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,847 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,987 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,266 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,780 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,567 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,538 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,147 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,918 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,968 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,768 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,704 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,669 |
Nicknames for Cadance
Names like Cadance
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ellie Treasure Sage Chloe Esme Campbell Promise Brielle Macie Reese Marlowe Riley
Other spellings of Cadance
Cadence Kaydence Kadence Caydence Kaydance Kadynce Kaedence Kaidynce
Names related to Cadance
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Harper Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cadance: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cadance, updated 20 October 2026.