The name Cadence comes from the English word meaning ‘rhythm, flow’. It originated from the Latin ‘cadentia’ meaning ‘a falling’.
Cadence is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
The name Cadence 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 girls names, Cadence ranks 405. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Cadence. In the entire USA, approximately 21,165 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cadence. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Cadence comes from the English word meaning ‘rhythm, flow’. It originated from the Latin ‘cadentia’ meaning ‘a falling’.
As a given name,... Cadence is in use since the 21st century.
Cadence is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Cadence cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #176 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2007. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Cadence, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Cadence 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 Cadence was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
396 babies were named Cadence in 2022 - that's 1 in 460,348 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Cadence ranked 669 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Cadence may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Cadence is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,983 women in Alaska is called Cadence. In total, that’s 96 women who feel addressed when the name Cadence is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #371 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Cadence as the answer a total of 20,555 times. This places Cadence at #856 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Cadence as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Cadence has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cadence 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 Cadence, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cadence
Cadence
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
D
E
N
C
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
N
C
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. Cadence sounds like this:
