Kadence is a spelling of Cadence, a musical word name that means "rhythm" or "flow", from the Latin cadere, to fall, which describes how a melody falls to rest at the end of a phrase. The K spelling follows Kaylee and Kennedy and was briefly the more popular of the two. Kadence entered the US top 1000 in 2003, peaked at number 344 in 2005 and has slipped to number 1616 in 2025.