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Slade

#1,055 in 2025Boys' name

Valley

Slade has been given to 6,101 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #1,055 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 246 recorded.

Babies named Slade, 2025

1 in 15,900

Slade over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Slade: meaning, origin, and history

Valley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Slade means

Slade means “valley”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,094 boys were recorded with the name Slade between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 246 in 2007; its best national rank was #855 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,073 in 2020 to #1,055 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,172 in 2015 to #1,055 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Slade between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #13,297 in 2020.

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.

How common is Slade?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,900
208 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,210
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,055
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,049 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Slade 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,049 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Slade. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Slades were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Slade was born before 2009 — so the typical Slade is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,083
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (1,765).

Is Slade 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
−7
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+18
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+117
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 2007 (246)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#855
2007

Spellings of Slade

Slade is not the most common spelling — Shane is, with 22.1% against Slade's 0.70%.

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 Slade is used

Across 2016–2025, Slade was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 2,703 boys, against 1 in 9,063 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 33,333).

337 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 2,703
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 2,703
  3. 3Alabama1 in 2,778
  4. 4Utah1 in 2,941
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 3,333
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 3,448
  7. 7Kansas1 in 4,762
  8. 8Texas1 in 5,556

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.

Slade around the world

Where Slade 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
    2013–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Slade

People whose public names include Slade, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Slade by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,055
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 18
Best rank ever
#855
2007
Peak year
2007
246 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,094
Count in 2025
208

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,297
2020
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Slade

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

SlaterSlateJadeBladeQuadeShadeZadeKadeSlaydeCadeSlaytonSladenGladeWadeSlaydenSwadeSladerMckadeSlayterMeadeDadeAdeSlatonSade

Names with a curve like Slade

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Slade, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JaiTorinShlomoYisroelShimonImmanuelMordechaiMenachemTajAmarSamiShmuel

Sibling names for Slade

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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