Slayde
Slayde was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,573 among boys’ names; 356 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Slayde by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Slayde?
#5,573 among boys’ names, 2025
Slayde rose from #6,259 in 2015 to #5,573 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 10.0 per million.
21 babies in 2008, the peak
Slayde peaked in 2008, when 21 boys were given it, #4,680 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,573 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,140 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,424 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,103 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,617 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,431 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,779 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,928 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,741 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,281 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,259 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,570 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,953 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,580 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,163 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,820 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,164 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,680 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,956 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,400 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,191 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,905 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,506 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,472 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,363 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,981 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,571 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Slayde a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Slayde has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Slayde: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Slayde, and how old are they?
An estimated 352 Americans named Slayde and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 249 people named Slayde (13 women and girls, 236 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 270 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,457 babies since 1880, Slayde is the second most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 225 babies (7.6%), again the second 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 Slayde
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 Slayde and names like it
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