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“Rhythm or musical flow” — English, from Latin origin
Boy's name · #1994 in the US (2025) · 2020s
Cadence is near its high-water mark: it reached #1530 in 2023 and still ranked #1994 in 2025. About 2,100 boys have carried it since 1992. About 77% of babies named Cadence in recent years have been girls. Together with its spelling variant Kadence (#2014), Cadence would rank around #1290 with about 150 births last year — the newborns split about 50/50 between Cadence and Kadence.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 7 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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