Shadoe
Shadoe was last recorded in 1997, when 6 babies were given it; 255 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shadoe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shadoe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,078, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1989, the peak
Shadoe peaked in 1989, when 55 babies were given it (43 boys, #1,784 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #9,078 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,834 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,309 | 9 | #6,320 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 12 | #5,061 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,540 | 9 | #6,136 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,284 | 14 | #4,286 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,255 | 11 | #5,035 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,074 | 25 | #2,680 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,869 | 43 | #1,784 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,243 | 43 | #1,661 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #12,838 | 9 | #4,889 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shadoe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 255 Americans recorded as Shadoe, 27% are girls and 73% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shadoe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shadoe, and how old are they?
An estimated 245 Americans named Shadoe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 34 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 237 people named Shadoe (74 women and girls, 163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,919 babies since 1880, Shadoe is the fourth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Shadoe (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shadoe
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 Shadoe and names like it
- Compare Shadoe and ShadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShadoe peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Shadoe.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shadoe alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.