# Cade (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/cade/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,391 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,226 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 36,795 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.1% (7,693 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /keɪd/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | Caid, Caide, Cayde, Kade, Kaid, Kaide, Kayde |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cade in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 51% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 43% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Cade in the United States and Australia.

## People named Cade

- Toni Cade Bambara, American author, activist, professor (1939–1995)
- John Cade, Australian psychiatrist (1912-1980)
- Robert Cade, American medical doctor, nephrologist, research scientist, inventor of Gatorade (1927–2007

## Similar surnames

Cady, Cate, Catoe, Cude, Coad, Cote, Cody, Cota, Choate, Cathey, Cato, Cotto.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.