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Kady

Kady reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 1,664, and has been recorded 2,885 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 2,800 Kadys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kady

By the numbers

Total US births
2,885
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
28
Peak year
2008
Best rank
1,664th
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1970

How old the living Kadys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,885 babies given the name since 1970, about 2,800 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 670 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Kadys

People named Kady with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Kady is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kady is most concentrated in Texas (2.8×), California (2.5×), Georgia (1.7×), Washington (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Kady peaked:

All the names of 2008

Kady elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Kady 649 663rd
France girls Kady 520 1,127th
Scotland girls Kady 150 253rd
Ireland girls Kady 53 501st
Northern Ireland girls Kady 13 318th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Kady against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.