Cad

loc · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cad is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Acronym of computer-aided design.

rarermore common
  • TDChad1 in 26◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6K
  • GYGuyana1 in 13K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈209K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
65 ●

2.9K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chad in US United States, NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Acronym of computer-aided design.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Cad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States208,927△2.1K rec.1 in 1.6K209KChad65
TD Chad9,0060 rec.——Cad1
TR Türkiye238162 rec.——Cad7
GY Guyana56—1 in 13K56——
SE Sweden52△2 rec.1 in 196K52—1
GB United Kingdom31112 rec.—4Chad13
BR Brazil29△1 rec.1 in 7.3M281—1
CA Canada2556 rec.—2Chad16
DK Denmark22—1 in 267K22——
PL Poland22—1 in 1.7M22——
RU Russia912 rec.——Chad4
FI Finland6△1 rec.1 in 929K53—1

Roughly 209K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English9K55%
  • French5403%
  • Turkish2201%
  • Chinese171%
  • Arabic171%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English9,02155%
French5403%
Turkish2201%
Chinese171%
Arabic171%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cad is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name822 records spelled Cad5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cád, Cäd, Cãd

  • a separate name99 records spelled Cad2 spellings in the group

    Also written Çad

  • a separate name72 records spelled Cad3 spellings in the group

    Also written Čad, Cäd

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Cad is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • ISO 4217 currency code for the Canadian dollar.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, initialism of computer-aided design

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In din, Chad (a country in Central Africa)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Japanese, CAD (computer-aided design)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, inflection of cădea:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Cad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000193#89,172
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—151#2,202
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010125#134,712
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—47#109,451
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—24—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19758—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19846—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19175—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19815—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19165—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19634—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19973—

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 91 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cad?
We estimate roughly 209 thousand people bear Cad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Cad have the most bearers?
We estimate about 209 thousand people bear Cad in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled chad.
What does the name Cad mean?
Recorded meaning: Acronym of computer-aided design.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cad”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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