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Wade
Pronounced /weɪd/
Rank in 2024
#340
Born in 2024
1,009
Peak year
1970 · #189
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,009 boys were named Wade, about 1 in every 1,700.
- It peaked in 1970 with 1,423 babies, ranked #189.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 75,552 boys have been named Wade since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Wade per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.6Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5,705 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Silent: 6,130 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Boomers: 16,931 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Gen X: 17,555 babies, 0.65 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,670 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,396 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 10,056 babies, 0.46 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English wæd (“a ford”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /weɪd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Wade, CC BY-SA 4.0.