I’ve only just heard of [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] as a girl’s name through this site. My immediate reaction was that it would be a rare name, maybe chosen by a writer or musician parent. I put it down as one of those eccentric aristocratic choices. Further reading had led me to believe it’s perceived as the opposite: a ‘trashy’ choice rife with creative spellings. What do you think? [name_f]Do[/name_f] you know a [name_f]Cadence[/name_f]?
I know 2 [name_f]Cadence[/name_f]'s and 1 [name_f]Candice[/name_f]. Not really a fan of either. I do feel they’re a bit on the ‘tacky’ side particularly [name_f]Candice[/name_f] with the usual nn of [name_f]Candy[/name_f], but I can think of far more ‘trashier’ names than these.
I don’t think [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] spelled [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] is awful…I think of it along the lines of [name_f]Melody[/name_f] or [name_u]Harmony[/name_u] or [name_f]Aria[/name_f] or other musical names.
However I have seen a few girls called “[name_f]Kaydence[/name_f]” or “Kadynce” or something and that does give it kind of a trendy and trashy vibe. People will even spell really classic names wrong to be creative, but when the name isn’t already historically well known that kind of takes over the perception of it.
I love the name. I’ve never seen it spelled as above though. People trying to get creative with traditional names ruin them all. (Take [name_m]Jaxon[/name_m] for example, ew). I think [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] is very classy.
[name_f]Cadence[/name_f] is a lovely name and not at all trashy to me. I don’t know any personally, but I do know a [name_f]Candice[/name_f] and she’s brilliant and amazing.
I want to like [name_f]Cadence[/name_f], but I think I’ve encountered one [name_f]Cadence[/name_f], one [name_f]Kadence[/name_f] and one Kadynce in real life and thus, it feels like a good name that fell in with a bad crowd, if that makes sense. Also, and this is the high school band nerd coming out in me, it bugs me when people use [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] as the name of any child other than their last, because of how the musical term works (but I wouldn’t say that out loud to many people because I suspect that’s more a problem of me being persnickety than them being clueless about the meaning of the name).
I’ve suspected that people took to [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] as a means of getting to the nickname [name_f]Cady[/name_f], but I don’t know if that’s true on a wide scale.
Interestingly (not part of your question, but it’s come up in the thread), I think of [name_f]Candice[/name_f] as a completely different name from [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] - the only times I ever consider them together is when one of them is so thoroughly misspelled that I can’t tell at first which name it’s supposed to be. In my experience, [name_f]Candice[/name_f] was popular a good twenty to thirty years before [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] was; I’d be surprised to meet a [name_f]Candice[/name_f] under 5 or a [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] over 10. Maybe it’s regional?
While it’s a nice name, in my mind it is a “bad luck” name. I work in the medical field and it seems like a disproportionate number of girls named [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] have medical problems. It probably related to its popularity, but that association is hard to shake.
[name_f]Cadence[/name_f] started out as a hip, quirky name for baby boys – similar to [name_u]Finn[/name_u] or [name_m]Milo[/name_m] or [name_m]Jasper[/name_m].
However, it very quickly became a name used for mostly girls.
I hate to say this, but the children named [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] that I have met typically have low-income, under-educated parents. Many have kreatif spellings – [name_f]Kaydence[/name_f], [name_f]Caydence[/name_f], etc.
I would avoid using it.
I prefer [name_f]Cadenza[/name_f]. [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] comes across as a bit dated to me, sorry. It has a nice sound though.
I find it very tacky and trendy. A few years ago, there were tons of them in my area. I put it in the same category of names like [name_u]Kenzie[/name_u], [name_u]Madison[/name_u], [name_f]Neveah[/name_f], [name_f]Brynlee[/name_f], etc. Sort of insubstantial and date stamped.
Thanks everyone. I think that’s kind of reinforced my two different thoughts on this name. I don’t know any [name_f]Cadence[/name_f]'s here in Australia which might be a regional thing.
More trash than treasure.
I wouldn’t call it trash, but it’s rather harsh, as far as names go.
I don’t find [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] trashy but it’s not my favorite either. I have never meet anyone named [name_f]Cadence[/name_f].
[name_m]Don[/name_m]'t know a [name_f]Cadence[/name_f], not particularly keen to. It reminds me of the unbearably common [name_m]Caden[/name_m].
Sorry, but I find it trashy.
I really didn’t know so many people found this name “trashy”. It has a soft, beautiful, peaceful connotation, in my opinion. As someone else said, it reminds me of [name_f]Aria[/name_f], [name_f]Melody[/name_f], and even [name_u]Harper[/name_u]. I personally know just one girl by this name…a beautiful, intelligent little one. Although, she does spell it [name_f]Kaydence[/name_f], because her late grandmother was named [name_u]Kay[/name_u]. The grandma was still alive when she got to go to a doctor appointment and hear the baby’s heartbeat, and she proclaimed it to be “the most beautiful little melody”. The grandma passed away, and they wanted to honor her…so they chose [name_f]Kaydence[/name_f]. The poor mom cried when someone told her in person that [name_f]Kaydence[/name_f] was a stripper name. Nice, huh? Bullies suck. Anyhow…My only other experience with this name came from a book, “What Mr. Mattero Did”, if I remember correctly…there was a music teacher whose three children had names related to music: [name_f]Melody[/name_f] was one of the daughters, I can’t remember the other girl’s name, and the son’s name was actually [name_f]Cadence[/name_f].
I like [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] in just its original spelling. I fail to see the “trashy” side. To me it’s very melodious. But I’ve also never met one, so that might be part of it. That in itself is actually surprising as I’ve worked at both a daycare and a school in the last two years. My area is more saturated with [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], [name_f]Ava[/name_f] and [name_f]Emma[/name_f].
I consider it to be more on the “trashy” side because of how many different ways I’ve seen it spelled. Seriously, it seems like no two are the same. [name_f]Cadence[/name_f], [name_f]Kaydence[/name_f], Caydense, Kadynse, etc.
I do find [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] on a boy to be quite handsome, though!
It’s trash to me