Wayde
Wayde was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,714 among boys’ names; 2,304 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,970 Americans named Wayde and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 13 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wayde by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wayde?
#2,714 among boys’ names, 2025
Wayde rose from #3,143 in 2015 to #2,714 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 28.1 per million.
252 babies in 1959, the peak
Wayde peaked in 1959, when 252 boys were given it, #495 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,714 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,596 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,992 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,866 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,968 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,975 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,364 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,118 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,155 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,143 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,086 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,955 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,363 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,597 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,703 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,578 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #4,033 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #7,055 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,288 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,621 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,501 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,109 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,177 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,494 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #5,025 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,366 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,738 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,682 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,838 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,804 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,095 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,950 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,945 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,433 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,792 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,452 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #3,023 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,426 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,772 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,208 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,830 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,089 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,531 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,119 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 23 | #1,887 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,959 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,535 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,398 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,854 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 31 | #1,433 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 32 | #1,400 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,293 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,106 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 135 | #674 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 252 | #495 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 153 | #623 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,386 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,165 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,842 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,203 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,241 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,233 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,546 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,128 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,524 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,933 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,783 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,811 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wayde a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wayde has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wayde: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wayde, and how old are they?
1,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,304 Americans ever recorded as Wayde. The median Wayde alive today is 37 years old; half are between 13 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,639 people named Wayde (6 women and girls, 1,633 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 596 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 262 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 272 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 333 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 502 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 78,970 babies since 1880, Wayde is the second most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 996 babies (4.8%), 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.
More about Wayde and names like it
- Compare Wayde and WadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wayde since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Wayde.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wayde alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.