About the name Cadence
Cadence belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Cadence first appears in Social Security records in 1974. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #199 in 2007, and in 2024 242 babies received the name — 22,182 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.