Wade
93,102 people in America carry this name — ranked #331 of 777.
A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.
Say it WAYD
1 syllable · the capitals are the stressed part
Phonetic transcription
W EY1 D — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.
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People counted 93,102 2020 Census
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Per 100,000 31.1 about 1 in 3,560 people
Where Wade comes from and what it means
Dutch in origin, reading literally as “from weide, a meadow or pasture”.
Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.
A name and a surname
Wade is carried in front of the comma and behind it — thousands of Americans have it as a surname too.
The most common full names
- Michael Wade ≈ 1,000 people
- John Wade ≈ 900 people
- James Wade ≈ 800 people
- David Wade ≈ 800 people
- Robert Wade ≈ 800 people
- William Wade ≈ 600 people
- Mary Wade ≈ 500 people
- Maria Wade ≈ 500 people
The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.
Names about as common
The nearest entries above and below by number of people.
Same syllables and stress as Wade
Ends on the same sound
- Jones 1,383,250
- Moore 696,384
- White 636,798
- King 453,539
- Scott 421,499
- Hill 419,076
- Cook 290,386
- Bell 267,025
- Doe 262,774
- Ward 255,767
Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.
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Where this name sits between household and almost unheard of.
Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
- Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
- Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers