Wade

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Wade: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Wade: Recorded since 1976, with a gap of 10 years, it reached #95 in 1985, and it stood at #1,282 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
49years from first to last
#95highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Wade's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2007

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#5201

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1976–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1976
First recorded at #97 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1976 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1976–1985
Highest recorded position: #95 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1985 (recorded 1976–1985).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1282 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Wade appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 902 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1976.

Wade across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Wade's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#520 (1996)	#510 (2001)	#1282 (2024)	29 of 29	902 (1996–2024)	49 (2017)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#97 (1976)	#95 (1985)	#95 (1985)	4 of 10	293 (1976–1985)	76 (1985)

Wade by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Wade in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	123	4 of 10	31
2000s	315	10 of 10	32
2010sbusiest	327	10 of 10	33
2020s	137	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 33 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 27, from 17 to 44.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Wade appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #95 in New South Wales, Australia in 1985.

Wade's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1282	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1139	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1143	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1055	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#707	47	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#763	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#709	49	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#758	44	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#988	29	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#954	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1124	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1289	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1008	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#836	33	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#776	35	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#793	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#691	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#815	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#833	24	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#656	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#510	39	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#568	33	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#679	25	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#519	37	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#613	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#520	34	High	Verified
1985	New South Wales, Australia	male	#95	76	Insufficient	Not yet available
1979	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	75	Insufficient	Not yet available
1978	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	71	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	71	Insufficient	Not yet available

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1976 and 2024, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #95, first reached in 1985.

It held a top-100 place in 4 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 76 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1985.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Macauley · #95, 29y
Perry · #95, 30y
Embla · #96, 33y
Baby · #93, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Sasha · #95, 42y
Laoise · #96, 50y
Patryk · #96, 47y
Sheree · #94, 24y

Wade was ranked #95 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1985. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Wade and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Wade without appearing here.

Wade moved ahead of

Brett Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1442 and #1380 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #758 and #1704.
Barry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #815 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #691 and #1617.
Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #833 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #815 and #1347.
Wayne Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1442 and #1327 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #758 and #1234.

Moved ahead of Wade

Albie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #656 and #722 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #833 and #490.
Denis Compare
In 2002 they stood at #656 and #671 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #833 and #499.
Cillian Compare
In 2008 they stood at #836 and #987 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1008 and #760.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #793 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #776 and #538.

Moved the opposite way to Wade

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Wade

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wade went from #520 to #1282 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #95 in New South Wales, Australia in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Wade

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What stands out in Wade's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wade across 2 official records

Wade by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What stands out in Wade's record

Wade across 2 official records

Wade by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Wade appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Wade

Wade and the names beside it

Wade moved ahead of

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