girls:
843 births since 2002
#4873 (15th percentile)
boys:
17 births since 2005
#4569 (0th percentile)
overall:
860 births since 2002
#6879 (11th percentile)
The name Kadance is the #6,879 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 860 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 11.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,873 (14.7% percentile) for all time with 843 births since 2002. For boys, it ranks #4,569 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2005.
Kadance first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for girls and 2005 for boys).
The name Kadance has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kadance reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 10.1% percentile (ranked #869) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 49 births per million (ranked 10.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kadance ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kadance reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #874) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kadance".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kadance. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Kadance is pronounced as KAY-duhns, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-DANS, at 35.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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