Cade

Cade is short, flat, and faintly heroic. The English surname likely came from a nickname meaning "round" or "lumpy" — unromantic in origin — but attached to Jack Cade, the rebel who led a popular uprising against Henry VI in 1450 and became a minor Shakespeare character in Henry VI, Part 2. The name's migration to first name is purely American, riding the one-syllable surname trend alongside Tate, Cole, and Chase. Cade holds at 272 on the US charts. Single syllable, hard K, long A, clean D. Athletic-sounding, faintly cowboy, no-nonsense. A name that expects to be called across a field.