Wayde — #3524 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Wayde

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,255 babies named Wayde between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wayde currently holds the #3524 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 252 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wayde performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 502 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Wayde shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 94 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Wayde in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wayde 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 2,255 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.