Cade

Derived from an English surname associated with Middle English words for a barrel or a hand-reared domestic animal. The name entered the historical ledger notably through Jack Cade, leader of a 1450 Kentish rebellion. American parents largely ignored it until 1953, after which it drifted quietly before surging around the turn of the millennium.

The name reads as modern, brisk, and built for outdoor daylight. A Cade is almost inevitably pictured in athletic shorts, holding a water bottle covered in waterproof brand decals. Over ninety percent of living bearers were born after 1996, giving the name a distinctly twenty-first-century cadence. It is a name that has never had to sit through a rotary phone ringing.