Slade — #1050 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Slade

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,884 babies named Slade between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Slade currently holds the #1050 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 246 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Slade performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,765 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Slade shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 914 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Slade in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Slade 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 5,884 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.