The name Cade comes from an English surname that was originally derived from a nickname meaning ’round’, ‘stout’ or ‘sturdy’ in Old English.
Cade is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Cade isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Cade ranks 358. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Cade. In the entire USA, approximately 29,212 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cade. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Cade comes from an English surname that was originally derived from a nickname meaning ’round’, ‘stout’ or ‘sturdy’ in Old English.
Since the 1970s,... Cade is used as a given name in the US.
Cade is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Cade cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #195 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2001. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Cade, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Cade seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cade was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,171 babies were named Cade in 2022 - that's 1 in 138,444 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Cade ranked 279 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Cade is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Cade and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cade, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Dinosaur
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cade
Cade
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
D
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
D
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cade sounds like this:
