Wayde
Wayde is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. Its best rank was 495th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959252 births
- Best rank
- #495in 1959
- Since 1915
- 2,255people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,255 boys have been named Wayde in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 252 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1977, and the 1950s alone account for 22%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wayde | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 16 | |
| 1940s | 55 | |
| 1950s | 502 | |
| 1960s | 408 | |
| 1970s | 164 | |
| 1980s | 153 | |
| 1990s | 211 | |
| 2000s | 181 | |
| 2010s | 363 | |
| 2020s | 186 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Wayde was the 495th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Wayde
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rockpeak 1957
- Lennypeak 1961
- Blanepeak 1957
- Flintpeak 1959
- Vincepeak 1963
- Faronpeak 1956
- Rockypeak 1957
- Crispeak 1960
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.