Ade
Ade was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,199 among boys’ names; 408 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ade by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ade mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ade is “a male given name.”
The surname derives from medieval forms of Adam or Adrian.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ade?
#7,199 among boys’ names, 2025
Ade fell from #7,068 in 2015 to #7,199 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 6.4 per million.
23 babies in 2016, the peak
Ade peaked in 2016, when 23 babies were given it (17 boys, #5,318 among boys’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,199 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,993 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,749 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,267 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,702 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,703 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,219 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,159 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,110 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,318 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,068 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,650 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,560 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,769 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,148 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,873 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,020 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,380 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,738 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,298 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,960 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,535 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,369 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,533 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,314 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,017 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,797 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,799 | 6.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,666 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,518 | 4.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,227 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,423 | 3.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,566 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,243 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,389 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,473 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,499 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,845 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,064 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,585 | 4.3 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,320 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,509 | 3.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,230 | 3.2 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,736 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ade a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 408 Americans recorded as Ade, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ade: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ade, and how old are they?
An estimated 391 Americans named Ade and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 954 people named Ade (311 women and girls, 643 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ade rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,759 babies since 1880, Ade is the third most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 103 babies (11%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ade
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ade and names like it
- Compare Ade and AudieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAde peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ade since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Ade.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ade alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.