Slade
Slade was given to 208 boys in 2025, #1,055 among boys’ names; 6,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,930 Americans named Slade and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Slade by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Slade?
#1,055 among boys’ names, 2025
Slade rose from #1,172 in 2015 to #1,055 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.12 per 1,000.
246 babies in 2007, the peak
Slade peaked in 2007, when 246 boys were given it, #855 among boys’ names. The 208 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 208 | #1,055 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 211 | #1,048 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 184 | #1,142 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 191 | #1,117 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 199 | #1,074 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 187 | #1,073 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 178 | #1,110 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 200 | #1,015 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 188 | #1,054 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 159 | #1,172 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 176 | #1,092 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 146 | #1,232 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 146 | #1,221 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 193 | #1,007 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 200 | #988 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 220 | #936 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 221 | #923 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 246 | #855 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,169 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,275 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,432 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,101 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,181 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,156 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,184 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 93 | #1,306 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,314 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,394 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 63 | #1,582 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,268 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,393 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 58 | #1,571 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 62 | #1,483 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 55 | #1,565 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,127 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,276 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 36 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,971 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 27 | #2,009 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,686 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,224 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 40 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 39 | #1,425 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 38 | #1,405 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,344 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 38 | #1,396 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 40 | #1,332 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 37 | #1,320 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,311 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,894 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,881 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,755 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,787 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #3,014 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,481 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Slade a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Slade has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 73 years of records.
Girls and boys named Slade: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Slade, and how old are they?
5,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,101 Americans ever recorded as Slade. The median Slade alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 4,541 people named Slade (50 women and girls, 4,491 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,841 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 81 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 448 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 688 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,400 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Slade born?
The states with the most babies named Slade are Texas, Alabama and Georgia, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #933 | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 12 | #445 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #845 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #716 | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 10 | #351 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 10 | #662 | 0.3× |
| California | 9 | #1,808 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,338 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 9 | #930 | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 8 | #409 | 1.0× |
Where Slade is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Slade is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1946 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Slade with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,457 babies since 1880, Slade is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 208 of their 225 babies (92%), again the 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 Slade
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 Slade and names like it
- Compare Slade and SlaydeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSlade peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Slade since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Slade.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Slade alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.