Meaning not yet researched.
Shade: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #737 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #737 in 1880; #7,595 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Shade in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,595 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #737.
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Shade: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #737 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 33 (1997).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Shade, making it the 7,595th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,978 places from #5,617 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 17 boys named Shade in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #737, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 33, in 1997. For comparison, it was #4,525 in 2015 and #4,124 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Shade, making it the 14,675th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,635 places from #17,310 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 girls named Shade in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,858, reached in 1986. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #18,701 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shade in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 2,025 US babies have been given the name, 43% of them girls and 57% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 624 babies named Shade.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 167 US boys were named Shade; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shad (4,831 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Shade 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 | 6 | #14,675 | 11 | #7,595 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,310 | 17 | #5,617 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,217 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,420 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #5,082 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,846 | 14 | #6,235 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,600 | 19 | #5,123 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,744 | 20 | #4,894 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,908 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,296 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,701 | 22 | #4,525 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,988 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,946 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,113 | 26 | #3,988 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,000 | 18 | #5,162 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,123 | 21 | #4,650 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,985 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,980 | 26 | #4,016 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,496 | 28 | #3,775 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,261 | 24 | #4,081 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,495 | 21 | #4,306 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,558 | 15 | #5,444 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,383 | 20 | #4,253 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,640 | 17 | #4,670 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,016 | 18 | #4,437 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,717 | 21 | #3,892 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,062 | 28 | #3,018 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,628 | 25 | #3,172 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,093 | 33 | #2,495 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,949 | 24 | #3,091 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,206 | 25 | #2,909 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,576 | 24 | #3,015 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,238 | 29 | #2,569 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,131 | 16 | #3,891 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,835 | 9 | #5,859 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,212 | 11 | #4,937 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,601 | 15 | #3,779 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,581 | 13 | #3,873 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,517 | 8 | #5,378 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,858 | 7 | #5,832 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,847 | 6 | #6,404 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,674 | 15 | #3,049 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,529 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,106 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,120 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,549 | 8 | #4,785 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,111 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #5,030 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,992 | 6 | #5,488 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,247 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,369 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,643 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,451 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,969 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,974 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,064 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,069 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,124 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,283 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,973 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,515 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,447 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,869 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,910 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,835 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,479 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,078 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,215 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,846 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,762 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,143 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,119 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,812 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,768 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,816 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,138 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,877 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,840 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,379 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,177 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,284 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,248 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,560 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,321 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #943 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #946 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,138 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #904 |
| 1885 | — | — | 7 | #825 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #826 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #737 |
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).