Kady

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kady: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #318 in 2005, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#318highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#3824
1998	#2407
1999	#1473
2000	#2746
2001	#1728
2002	#1066
2003	#1843
2004	#1012
2005	#609
2006	#622
2007	#764
2008	#663
2009	#865
2010	#1040
2011	#1327
2012	#1583
2013	#3536
2014	#2314
2015	#3615
2016	#994
2017	#915
2018	#1234
2019	#1252
2020	#1687
2021	#2499
2022	#1621
2023	#2063
2024	#1894

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

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #541 among girls in Scotland, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1894 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2019
Highest recorded position: #318 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2019).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kady appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 640 births with the name.

Kady 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.

Kady'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	#2096 (1996)	#609 (2005)	#1894 (2024)	29 of 29	640 (1996–2024)	56 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#501 (2008)	#885 (2025)	12 of 22	53 (2004–2025)	8 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#318 (2005)	#318 (2005)	#424 (2019)	4 of 15	13 (2005–2019)	4 (2005)

Kady 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 Kady in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	312	10 of 10	31
2010s	227	10 of 10	23
2020s	73	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 31 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 30, from 6 to 36.

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

Kady 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #318 in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Kady'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	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1621	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1252	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#915	41	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#994	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1583	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#865	39	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#663	56	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#764	43	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#622	53	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#609	52	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1012	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1066	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#585	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#501	8	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #318, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 28 years 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.

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Kadyn · #387, 9y
Kaeden · #749, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Kadie · #318, 31y
Leoni · #320, 32y
Fynn · #315, 29y
Dante · #324, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kadie · #318, 31y
Lisa-Marie · #318, 29y
Qasim · #318, 29y
Cairo · #319, 29y

Kady was ranked #318 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2005. 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.

Kady 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 Kady without appearing here.

Kady moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3615 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #994 and #5785.
Brittany Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3615 and #3615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #994 and #4763.
Denise Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3615 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #994 and #4763.
Tracy Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3615 and #2496 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #994 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Kady

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1687 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #1286.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2746 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #1107.
Ivy Compare
In 2015 they stood at #641 and #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #585 and #145.
Riley Compare
In 2015 they stood at #641 and #742 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #585 and #200.

Moved the opposite way to Kady

Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #2096 to #1234 while Finlay went from #1646 to #4684.
Helene Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #2096 to #1234 while Helene went from #1168 to #4684.
Jayden Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #2096 to #1234 while Jayden went from #2350 to #5666.
Kristy Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #2096 to #1234 while Kristy went from #620 to #5666.

Moved the same way as Kady

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #3824 to #1894 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #3824 to #1894 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #1066 to #1894 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.
Rian Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Girls, Kady went from #2096 to #3615 and Rian from #2350 to #5730.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #318 in Northern Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kady

Kady at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kady across 3 official records

Kady by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kady appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kady at a glance

Kady across 3 official records

Kady by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kady appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kady

Kady and the names beside it

Kady moved ahead of

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