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Kadence vs Kadiatou

American parents have registered 13,298 Kadences since 1880, against 618 Kadiatous. Kadence is still ahead, with 204 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kadence against Kadiatou, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kadence Kadiatou

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kadence has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Kadence had 13 and Kadiatou had 13.

Side by side

  Kadence Kadiatou
Total US births 13,298618
Most in one year 95339
Babies in 2025 20435
Estimated living today 13,000610
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20052024
Best rank 344th girls3,822nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,611th4,067th
First recorded 19941995
Girls / boys 11,618 / 1,680618 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kadences alive today are over 14; half the Kadiatous are over 12. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kadence Kadiatou
England and Wales 11233

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kadence and Kadiatou.