girls:
858 births since 1976
#4858 (15th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1880
#3476 (24th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1880
#5786 (25th percentile)
The name Shade is the #5,786 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,985 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 25.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,476 (24.2% percentile) for all time with 1,127 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,858 (15.0% percentile) for all time with 858 births since 1976.
Shade has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1976 for girls). Birth data for Shade is available in 90 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (90 years for boys and 35 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shade has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (56.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Shade were boys.
For boys, Shade reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #764) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 68 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Shade ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 14.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shade reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #758) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shade".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shade is pronounced as shayd, which has 1 syllables.
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