Shadrick
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shadrick has been given to 540 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1976, with 31 recorded.
Babies named Shadrick, 2021
1 in 484,000
Shadrick over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shadrick?
Shadrick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 250,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,678 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shadrick sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shadrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shadricks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shadrick was born before 1981 — so the typical Shadrick is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 40.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 535
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (217).
Is Shadrick 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 1976 (31)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.3% average annual change
Spellings of Shadrick
Shadrick is not the most common spelling — Chadwick is, with 57.2% against Shadrick's 2.3%.
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 Shadrick is used
Across 1910–2025, Shadrick was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,014,330 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2Mississippi1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Shadrick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shadrick by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shadrick
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shadrick
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.