Meaning not yet researched.
Slade: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 208 in 2025. Its best rank was #855 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #855 in 2007; #1,055 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Slade in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,055 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #855.
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Slade: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 208 boys in 2025. Peak: #855 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 246 (2007).
In 2025, 208 US boys were named Slade, making it the 1,055th most common boys’ name of the year, down 7 places from #1,048 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 211 boys named Slade in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #855, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 246. For comparison, it was #1,172 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Slade in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 6 babies. In all, 6,101 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,765 babies named Slade.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,925 US boys were named Slade; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 211. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,212 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Slade ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #351 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Slayde 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Slayde (356).
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 Slade in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 10 | #351 | #632 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #409 | — |
| Alabama | 12 | #445 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #617 | #592 |
| Indiana | 10 | #662 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #680 | #660 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #689 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #689 | — |
| Tennessee | 10 | #716 | #1,031 |
| Georgia | 11 | #845 | #1,084 |
| Michigan | 8 | #890 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #930 | #980 |
| Texas | 27 | #933 | #900 |
| Colorado | 5 | #943 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,019 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,338 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,808 | #2,014 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 208 | #1,055 |
| 2024 | — | — | 211 | #1,048 |
| 2023 | — | — | 184 | #1,142 |
| 2022 | — | — | 191 | #1,117 |
| 2021 | — | — | 199 | #1,074 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,302 | 187 | #1,073 |
| 2019 | — | — | 178 | #1,110 |
| 2018 | — | — | 179 | #1,098 |
| 2017 | — | — | 200 | #1,015 |
| 2016 | — | — | 188 | #1,054 |
| 2015 | — | — | 159 | #1,172 |
| 2014 | — | — | 176 | #1,092 |
| 2013 | — | — | 146 | #1,232 |
| 2012 | — | — | 146 | #1,221 |
| 2011 | — | — | 193 | #1,007 |
| 2010 | — | — | 200 | #988 |
| 2009 | — | — | 220 | #936 |
| 2008 | — | — | 221 | #923 |
| 2007 | — | — | 246 | #855 |
| 2006 | — | — | 145 | #1,169 |
| 2005 | — | — | 122 | #1,276 |
| 2004 | — | — | 99 | #1,434 |
| 2003 | — | — | 140 | #1,102 |
| 2002 | — | — | 119 | #1,183 |
| 2001 | — | — | 120 | #1,158 |
| 2000 | — | — | 116 | #1,186 |
| 1999 | — | — | 93 | #1,309 |
| 1998 | — | — | 91 | #1,317 |
| 1997 | — | — | 79 | #1,397 |
| 1996 | — | — | 63 | #1,585 |
| 1995 | — | — | 85 | #1,273 |
| 1994 | — | — | 71 | #1,397 |
| 1993 | — | — | 58 | #1,576 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,488 |
| 1991 | — | — | 55 | #1,571 |
| 1990 | — | — | 43 | #1,835 |
| 1989 | — | — | 39 | #1,916 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,132 |
| 1987 | — | — | 42 | #1,653 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,278 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,721 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,972 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #2,010 |
| 1982 | — | — | 22 | #2,329 |
| 1981 | — | — | 35 | #1,687 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,801 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,225 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,754 |
| 1977 | — | — | 40 | #1,471 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,566 |
| 1975 | — | — | 39 | #1,425 |
| 1974 | — | — | 38 | #1,405 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,582 |
| 1972 | — | — | 40 | #1,344 |
| 1971 | — | — | 38 | #1,396 |
| 1970 | — | — | 40 | #1,333 |
| 1969 | — | — | 37 | #1,320 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,311 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,895 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,882 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,756 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,788 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,515 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #3,015 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,880 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,667 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,798 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,433 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,806 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,767 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,322 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,196 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,482 |
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).