Meaning not yet researched.
Wayde: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #495 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #495 in 1959; #2,714 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wayde in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,714 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #495.
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Wayde: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #495 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 252 (1959).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Wayde, making it the 2,714th most common boys’ name of the year, up 884 places from #3,598 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 32 boys named Wayde in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #495, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 252. For comparison, it was #3,144 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wayde in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 2,304 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 502 babies named Wayde.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 406 US boys were named Wayde; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wayde ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,549 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Wade (76,666 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Wayde 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,549 | #2,107 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,714 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,598 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,995 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,868 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,969 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,976 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,261 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,368 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,119 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,156 |
| 2015 | — | — | 37 | #3,144 |
| 2014 | — | — | 37 | #3,088 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,957 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,366 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,598 |
| 2010 | — | — | 29 | #3,704 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,580 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #4,036 |
| 2007 | — | — | 12 | #7,059 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,292 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,626 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,507 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,114 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,183 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,501 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #5,032 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,370 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,700 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,449 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,743 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,688 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,843 |
| 1993 | — | — | 17 | #3,810 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,101 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,998 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,161 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,087 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,955 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,950 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,436 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,795 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,454 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #3,064 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,515 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #3,025 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,427 |
| 1979 | — | — | 17 | #2,773 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,209 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,832 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #3,091 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,535 |
| 1974 | — | — | 19 | #2,274 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,400 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,532 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,120 |
| 1970 | — | — | 23 | #1,888 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,565 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,960 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,536 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,399 |
| 1965 | — | — | 19 | #1,855 |
| 1964 | — | — | 31 | #1,434 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,401 |
| 1962 | — | — | 37 | #1,294 |
| 1961 | — | — | 51 | #1,107 |
| 1960 | — | — | 135 | #675 |
| 1959 | — | — | 252 | #495 |
| 1958 | — | — | 153 | #624 |
| 1957 | — | — | 33 | #1,387 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,843 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,204 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,782 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,234 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,289 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #3,002 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,854 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,911 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,325 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,884 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,530 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,547 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,130 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,746 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,526 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,935 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,785 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,812 |
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).