Zade
Zade was given to 105 boys in 2025, #1,620 among boys’ names; 1,766 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Zade and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zade by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zade?
#1,620 among boys’ names, 2025
Zade rose from #1,894 in 2015 to #1,620 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 40.7 to 61.5 per million.
131 babies in 2024, the peak
Zade peaked in 2024, when 131 boys were given it, #1,417 among boys’ names. The 105 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,620 | 61.5 |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,417 | 76.0 |
| 2023 | 78 | #1,984 | 45.6 |
| 2022 | 90 | #1,814 | 51.5 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,171 | 37.7 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,022 | 41.1 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,362 | 32.3 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,144 | 36.3 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,634 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 54 | #2,411 | 28.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,894 | 40.7 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,202 | 32.3 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,180 | 32.2 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,034 | 36.4 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,101 | 33.7 |
| 2010 | 70 | #1,983 | 36.5 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,285 | 29.2 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,060 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,371 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,445 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,647 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,338 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,264 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,444 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,715 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,068 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,472 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,640 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,633 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,602 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,845 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,354 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,799 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,406 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,930 | 4.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,217 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,253 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,937 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zade a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,766 Americans recorded as Zade, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 105 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zade: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zade, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,766 Americans ever recorded as Zade. The median Zade alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,243 people named Zade (107 women and girls, 1,136 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 67 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 703 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 976 |
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 Zade born?
The states with the most babies named Zade are California, Texas and Ohio, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,434 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,554 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,464 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,548 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,098 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,466 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,247 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,038 | 0.1× |
Where Zade is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zade is most over-represented in Texas: since 1987 it was given 1.1 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 Zade 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,611 babies since 1880, Zade is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 105 of their 153 babies (69%), 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 Zade
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 Zade and names like it
- Compare Zade and ZaydeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZade peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zade since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Zade.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zade alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.