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Wayde

#2,714 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Wayde has been given to 2,304 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,714 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 252 recorded.

Babies named Wayde, 2025

1 in 69,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wayde: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wayde means

Wayde is a given name.

The naming story behind Wayde

Wikidata records Wayde as a given name. The entity identifier is Q7975880, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,304 boys were recorded with the name Wayde between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 252 in 1959; its best national rank was #495 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,975 in 2020 to #2,714 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,143 in 2015 to #2,714 in 2025.

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 Wayde?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 35,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,714
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wayde 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 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wayde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waydes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wayde was born before 1979 — so the typical Wayde is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,217
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Choose a decade

1950s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (502).

Is Wayde 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
+882
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+261
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+429
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.0%
Peak was 1959 (252)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#495
1959

Spellings of Wayde

Wayde is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 23.9% against Wayde's 0.16%.

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 Wayde is used

Across 1910–2025, Wayde was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 237,729 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 100,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Iowa1 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. Wayde has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wayde around the world

Where Wayde 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
    1997–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    2020–2020
    #4,605
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1995–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1969–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Wayde

People whose public names include Wayde, 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.

Wayde by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,714
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 261
Best rank ever
#495
1959
Peak year
1959
252 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,304
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Wayde

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

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Names with a curve like Wayde

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

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Sibling names for Wayde

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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