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Shadrach

#8,135 in 2025Boys' name

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Shadrach has been given to 785 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #8,135 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Shadrach, 2025

1 in 332,000

Shadrach over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shadrach: meaning, origin, and history

Visible, through *čiθráh

Hebrew

What Shadrach means

Shadrach belongs to the name family reached through Shadrach → *čiθráh. Its meaning is “visible”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Biblical Hebrew שדרך (šdrk /⁠šadrak⁠/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *čiθráh with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Shadrach (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Shadrach is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Shadrach comes through Biblical Hebrew שדרך and Proto-Iranian *čiθráh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include *čiθráh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 785 boys were recorded with the name Shadrach between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,924 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,413 in 2020 to #8,135 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,474 in 2015 to #8,135 in 2025.

How common is Shadrach?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,135
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shadrach 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shadrach. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shadrachs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shadrach was born before 2002 — so the typical Shadrach is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
775
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (197).

Is Shadrach 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
−942
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−722
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,661
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 2008 (26)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,924
1994

Spellings of Shadrach

Shadrach is the most-used spelling, taking 59.2% of the 1,325 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Shadrach is used

Across 1910–2025, Shadrach was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,754,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —
  3. 3Utah1 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. Shadrach has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shadrach around the world

Where Shadrach 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
    2000–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2006–2006
    #5,280
    in 2006
  • Canada
    2014–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2004–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shadrach by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,135
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 722
Best rank ever
#2,924
1994
Peak year
2008
26 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
785
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Shadrach

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

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Sibling names for Shadrach

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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