Wade
Top 1000
About Wade
Wade has never been outside the US Top 1000 for boys - there's a reason for that. It has a clean spelling, fresh sound and is neither too trendy (unlike Kade or Cade) or too old-school (like Richard or Albert). We think Wade is a winning name.
Pronounced WAYD.
As of October 2026, Wade ranked #344 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #183 in 1966, Nameberry popularity #301.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #544 | 508 | 264.5 |
| 2015 | #522 | 554 | 289 |
| 2016 | #405 | 791 | 416.8 |
| 2017 | #367 | 902 | 487.3 |
| 2018 | #361 | 916 | 504.4 |
| 2019 | #335 | 999 | 556.8 |
| 2020 | #341 | 944 | 546.9 |
| 2021 | #326 | 1,018 | 581.9 |
| 2022 | #344 | 952 | 545.2 |
| 2023 | #341 | 977 | 571.2 |
| 2024 | #341 | 1,009 | 585.6 |
| 2025 | #344 | 948 | 555 |
World rankings
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Wade on lists
Famous Wades
- Wade Anthony Boggs
American baseball player
- Wade Hampton
American Civil War general and politician from South Carolina
- Wade Leon Smith
American football player
- Wade Allen Miley
American baseball player
- Wade Imre Morissette
Canadian musician; twin sister Alanis Morissette
- Wade Davis
Canadian anthropologist and author
- Wade Davis
MLB pitcher
- Wade Barrett (born Stuart Alexander "Stu" Bennett)
English professional wrestler
- Wade Andrew Williams
American actor
- Wade Langham
son of singer Rita MacNeil and David Langham
- Wade Stormonth
Darling (b. 2011), son of actress Honeysuckle Weeks and Lorne Stormonth,Darling
- Wade Wall Upham (b. 2016)
son of Cate Edwards and Trevor Upham; grandson of politician John and Elizabeth Edwards
- Henry Wade
legendary former District Attorney of Dallas, Texas, famous for Roe v. Wade
- Wade Robson
Australian dancer and choreographer
Wade in pop culture
- Wade Kingsley
main character in the film "Pardners"
- Wade Winston Wilson aka Deadpool
Marvel Comics character
- Wade Kinsella
character on TV's "Hart of Dixie"
- Wade
Genius character in animated series "Kim Possible"
- Wade "Cry
baby" Walker, Johnny Depp's character in movie "Cry,Baby"
- Wade "Unique" Adams
character on TV's "Glee"
- Wade Hampton Hamilton
son of Scarlett O'Hara and Charles Hamilton in "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
- Wade the Duck
character in comic strip "U.S. Acres" and TV's Garfield and Friends
- Wade Watts
main character of the novel "Ready Player One"
- Wade Eiling
character on TV's "The Flash"
- Wade
word meaning to walk in shallow water