Cade

Cade is the 4,246th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,077 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 37,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,077
Rank: 4,246th
How common: 1 in 37,000
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cade described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 48.5%
Black, not Hispanic 42.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cade

Lance Cade (1981–2010)American professional wrestler
Jack Cade (1420–1450)leader of the 1450 revolt against the government of England
Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)American author, activist, professor

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

Surnames like Cade

Also a first name

Cade has been given to 34,918 American babies as a first name since 1953, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.