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Kade

Spelling variation of Cade, English
"round, barrel; battle"
Brynn McKeon
By Brynn McKeon
Updated Fri Aug 15 2025

Kade Origin and Meaning

The name Kade is a boy's name meaning "round, barrel; battle".

Kade falls into the trend of using a letter K at the beginning of a traditionally C-starting name, perhaps to give it a sharper edge. Trending since the 90s, Kade is currently in the Top 400, while Cade ranks nearly around 70 places ahead. Given to 933 babies in 2023, it is a consistently used name.

The original Cade spelling developed from an Old English surname meaning "round", though it is also possible that it emerged as a name for someone who made barrels, or from the Old English Cada meaning "battle".

Combined with all the boys named Cade, Kayden, Caden, Kaiden, and so on, it might feel far more popular as a name than it actually is.

On a recent study of voter names by political party, more than 80 percent of the voters named Kade vote Republican.

# 345 in the US

Kade Rank in US Top 1000

Popularity of the name Kade

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Famous People Named Kade

  • Kade Weston
    American NFL football player
  • Kade Speiser
    American photographer and videographer
  • Kash Kade Biermann
    son of reality star Kim Zolciak and football player Kroy Biermann
  • Cameron Kade
    son of American wrestler Shawn Michaels

The name Kade in Pop Culture

  • Kade Bronson (later Kade West)
    character in Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series