Shadd
Shadd was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 243 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shadd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shadd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,812, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1971, the peak
Shadd peaked in 1971, when 18 boys were given it, #2,263 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #11,812 | 2.9 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,445 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,011 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,690 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,077 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,895 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,615 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,478 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,385 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,946 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #7,737 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,102 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,988 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,633 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,146 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,091 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,924 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,887 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,421 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,934 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,108 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,020 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,353 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,706 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,346 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,384 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,637 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,263 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,322 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,444 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shadd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shadd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shadd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shadd, and how old are they?
An estimated 225 Americans named Shadd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 35 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Shadd (2 women and girls, 253 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Shadd?
Shadd is a less common spelling of Shad: SSA has recorded 243 Shadd and 4,831 Shad since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,971 babies since 1880, Shadd is the third most given (4.1% of them).
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 Shadd
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 Shadd and names like it
- Compare Shadd and ShadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShadd peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Shadd.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shadd alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.