Meaning not yet researched.
Shad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #402 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #402 in 1972; #8,799 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,799 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #402.
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Shad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #402 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 406 (1971).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Shad, making it the 8,799th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #402, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 406, in 1971. For comparison, it was #4,059 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shad in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 4,831 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,582 babies named Shad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 107 US boys were named Shad; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shade (2,025 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shahd, Shahid and Shahad are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shahd (749), Shahid (716), Shahad (277), Shadd (243), Shahed (153), Shayde (143), Shayd (31), Shaad (10), Shaude (6), Shaid (5), Zhayd (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shad in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,799 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,170 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,695 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,552 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,417 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,556 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,737 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,282 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #6,010 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,059 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,838 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,355 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,209 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,499 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,311 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #5,071 |
| 2008 | — | — | 37 | #3,155 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,616 |
| 2006 | — | — | 30 | #3,513 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,796 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,144 |
| 2003 | — | — | 32 | #3,034 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,594 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,609 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,962 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,132 |
| 1998 | — | — | 45 | #2,091 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,928 |
| 1996 | — | — | 55 | #1,723 |
| 1995 | — | — | 56 | #1,644 |
| 1994 | — | — | 67 | #1,451 |
| 1993 | — | — | 56 | #1,614 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,486 |
| 1991 | — | — | 50 | #1,671 |
| 1990 | — | — | 54 | #1,558 |
| 1989 | — | — | 49 | #1,640 |
| 1988 | — | — | 60 | #1,337 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,314 |
| 1986 | — | — | 49 | #1,434 |
| 1985 | — | — | 65 | #1,166 |
| 1984 | — | — | 52 | #1,290 |
| 1983 | — | — | 77 | #1,013 |
| 1982 | — | — | 97 | #911 |
| 1981 | — | — | 102 | #885 |
| 1980 | — | — | 118 | #812 |
| 1979 | — | — | 150 | #700 |
| 1978 | — | — | 181 | #622 |
| 1977 | — | — | 196 | #605 |
| 1976 | — | — | 199 | #576 |
| 1975 | — | — | 261 | #496 |
| 1974 | — | — | 316 | #445 |
| 1973 | — | — | 317 | #440 |
| 1972 | — | — | 381 | #402 |
| 1971 | — | — | 406 | #403 |
| 1970 | — | — | 175 | #615 |
| 1969 | — | — | 96 | #792 |
| 1968 | — | — | 64 | #909 |
| 1967 | — | — | 62 | #924 |
| 1966 | — | — | 47 | #1,087 |
| 1965 | — | — | 41 | #1,203 |
| 1964 | — | — | 30 | #1,459 |
| 1963 | — | — | 20 | #1,832 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,824 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,683 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,612 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,793 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,877 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,391 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,868 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).