Cayde

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 93 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
93
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2952
7 babies

Cayde by the numbers

In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Cayde. In the US, 93 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Cayde

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cayde. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Caderound barrel or lump of clay693 in the US (2017)
  • Clydefrom the river Clyde344 in the US (2017)
  • Caynespear; a variant spelling of Cain16 in the US (2017)
  • Cayden1,565 in the US (2017)
  • Cayce15 in the US (2017)
  • Caide9 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Cayde

Names that are said the same way as Cayde, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kaidleader or guide; a form of Caid4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kade756 in the US (2017)
  • Kayde31 in the US (2017)
  • Kaide19 in the US (2017)
  • Kayd14 in the US (2017)
  • Khade5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Cayde

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