girls:
7 births since 2020
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1946
#1576 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.7k births since 1946
#3610 (53rd percentile)
The name Slade is the #3,610 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,680 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 53.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,576 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 5,673 births since 1946. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 2020.
Slade first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for boys and 2020 for girls). Birth data for Slade is available in 71 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (71 years for boys and 1 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 Slade has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Slade reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 26.6% percentile (ranked #648) with 111 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 111 births per million (ranked 26.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Slade ranks #732 for boys (19.7% percentile) with 100 births per million, which is 90.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Slade reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% 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 "Slade".
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