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Cadie

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAY-dee
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Cadie is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Cadie mean?

Greek: spelling of Kadie; probably a spelling of Katie, from Katherine

Probably a phonetic spelling of Katie, the pet form of Katherine; Cady is also an English surname.

Meaning borrowed from Kadie.

Is Cadie a girl's or a boy's name?

Cadie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cadie in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 19 girls.

Half of all the girls named Cadie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2015. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 19 in 20062024
Cadie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20245#4,253
20230–
20225#4,168
20215#4,148
20205#4,110
20194#4,904
20183#5,896
201711#2,485
20165#4,290
20154#4,951
20145#4,187
20136#3,719
20128#3,148
20116#3,737
201014#2,004
200911#2,298
200815#1,840
200718#1,544
200619#1,418
200515#1,608
20046#2,957
20031#5,865
20020–
20010–
20003#4,074
19994#3,374
19983#4,026
19970–
19965#2,815

How popular is Cadie in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Cadie, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.

2025 had fewer girls named Cadie than any year since 1981.

Half of all the girls named Cadie in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 104 girls in the US were given Cadie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,644, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1978Busiest: 36 in 20072025
Cadie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
202411#8,941
20237#12,192
20226#13,586
20219#10,287
20209#10,245
201910#9,730
201810#9,801
201718#6,527
201613#8,390
201512#8,926
201412#8,961
201315#7,744
201210#10,424
201114#8,192
201019#6,638
200931#4,676
200835#4,359
200736#4,212
200628#4,952
200535#4,025
200425#5,058
200326#4,799
200215#7,039
200132#3,936
200020#5,486
199919#5,418
199815#6,355
199711#7,737
199626#4,054
199528#3,775
199425#4,110
199332#3,417
199222#4,521
199130#3,534
199029#3,618
198922#4,242
198810#7,106
198719#4,280
198613#5,456
198514#5,075
198416#4,477
19836#9,013
19826#9,235
19815#10,409
19800–
19796#9,008
19788#6,946

Names like Cadie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Cadie

Names related to Cadie

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Cadie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cadie, updated 20 October 2026.