Cade

• rare: Caide, Kade, Kayde

• 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”).

• IPA^(key): /keɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Cade

1. An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
     ,Scene IV:

     Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

     They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cade”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 266.

• CEDA, aced, dace, deca-, ecad