Ade — #9055 US boys' name
363 babies named Ade in U.S. Social Security records since 1919, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 36% of names given to boys today.
27% of everyone ever named Ade was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Ade in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ade
The Social Security Administration has registered 363 babies named Ade between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ade currently holds the #9055 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Ade is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 34 additional births since 2001.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ade performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 98 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Ade shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ade in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ade in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 363 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ade at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ade popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1919
- Peak year (2017)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 106 years of records
Currently ranks #9055 among boys.
363 total births across 106 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 18 births in a single year.
Ade popularity over time — girls
34 total births recorded since 2001 (Ade as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Ade accounts for 9% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ade by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 98 births that decade — 27% of Ade's all-time total
Ade decade highlights
- Peak decade 98 births
- Runner-up 63 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ade's strongest decade
98 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Ade by state
Where Ade concentrates geographically — total births since 1919
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.4% |
5 of 363 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1919–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.