Cadence

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cadence: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cadence: Recorded every year since 2004, it reached #661 in 2016, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#661highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#883
2005	#866
2006	#796
2007	#809
2008	#710
2009	#932
2010	#1125
2011	#1489
2012	#1210
2013	#1220
2014	#1234
2015	#1711
2016	#1327
2017	#1330
2018	#2499
2019	#2170
2020	#2163
2021	#1962
2022	#2488
2023	#3218
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2004 to 2024.

In 2016: #661 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1327 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #883 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2016
Highest recorded position: #661 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2005–2016).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Cadence appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 491 births with the name.

Cadence across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cadence's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#883 (2004)	#710 (2008)	#5891 (2024)	21 of 21	491 (2004–2024)	50 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#661 (2016)	#661 (2016)	3 of 12	12 (2005–2016)	5 (2016)
England and Wales · Boys	#4702 (2019)	#4702 (2019)	#5119 (2024)	2 of 6	6 (2019–2024)	3 (2019)

Cadence by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cadence in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	225	6 of 10	38
2010s	220	10 of 10	22
2020s	46	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 38 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cadence appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #661 in Republic of Ireland in 2016.

Cadence's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1330	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1327	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1210	27	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1489	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1125	29	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#710	50	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#809	40	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#796	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#883	30	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2004 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #661, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 1 year separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Cade · #330, 30y
Caden · #165, 28y
Cadhla · #53, 28y
Cadi · #776, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Abigael · #661, 25y
Annaleigh · #661, 19y
Barbora · #661, 17y
Afonso · #660, 21y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Barbora · #661, 17y
Afonso · #660, 21y
Mia-Lily · #660, 9y
Nicolae · #660, 15y

Cadence was ranked #661 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cadence and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cadence without appearing here.

Cadence moved ahead of

Tyler Compare
In 2007 they stood at #809 and #706 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #710 and #753.

Moved ahead of Cadence

Lorraine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #2115.
Logan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #3015.
Shea Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #3015.
Suzanne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #3015.

Moved the opposite way to Cadence

Ada Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 while Ada went from #1617 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 while Alma went from #1535 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 while Amelia went from #18 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 while Aria went from #1715 to #35.

Moved the same way as Cadence

Abigail Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 and Abigail from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 and Aimee from #47 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 and Aisling from #866 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cadence went from #883 to #5891 and Alex from #199 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #661 in Republic of Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cadence

Cadence at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cadence across 3 official records

Cadence by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cadence appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Cadence

Cadence and the names beside it

Cadence moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cadence

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Moved the same way as Cadence

Cadence at a glance

Cadence across 3 official records

Cadence by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cadence appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Cadence

Cadence and the names beside it

Cadence moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cadence

Moved the opposite way to Cadence

Moved the same way as Cadence