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Dade

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dade has been given to 916 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Dade, 2023

1 in 255,000

Dade over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dade: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dade means

Dade is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dade is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dade is pronounced /deɪd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 916 boys were recorded with the name Dade between 1958 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,913 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dade?

Dade had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 132,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
176,742 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dade sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,742 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dade. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dades were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dade was born before 2005 — so the typical Dade is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
916
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (470).

Is Dade rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (57)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,913
2001

Spellings of Dade

Dade is not the most common spelling — Dale is, with 14.3% against Dade's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dade is used

Across 1910–2025, Dade was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 683,044 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Oregon1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dade has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dade around the world

Where Dade ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1998–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dade by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,913
2001
Peak year
2001
57 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
916
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dade

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ZadeShadeQuadeDadrianBladeAdeJadeSadeGladeSwadeMckadeMeadeSladeDadenKadeSpadeCadeKincadeReadeWadeDaddyTadeKhadeXade

Sibling names for Dade

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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