Cader
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of cadre
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kadeɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cader is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 41K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 49Kfew records
- HRCroatia1 in 98K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative form of cadre.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cader counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Cader | 41 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Cader | 40 |
| PL Poland | 945 | 1 in 41K | 481 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Cader | 20 |
| IN India | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 4M | 30 | Cader | 17 |
| HR Croatia | 43 | 1 in 98K | 43 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cader is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, alternative spelling of cadair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, apocopic form of cadere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, to fall
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
(measured from records)- Benedykt Caderb. 1925PLPolish brigadier general
- Muni Caderb. 1932IDIndonesian actor (1932-2001)
- Bolesław Caderb. 1933PLOfficer of the Polish Army
- Zameel CaderGBresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 481 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 481 | #6,788 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 464 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 464 | #6,912 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 43 | #14,671 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 39 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 30 | #644 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #4,195 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cader mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of cadre. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cader?
- In Spanish /kadeɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Cader have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Cader in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cader.
- How common is the name Cader?
- In Poland, the national register counted 945 people named Cader in 2026, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caderThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Cader”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.