boys:
2.2k births since 1915
#2674 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1915
#5571 (28th percentile)
The name Wayde is the #5,571 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,223 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 28.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,674 (41.7% percentile) for all time with 2,223 births since 1915.
Wayde first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for boys in 1915). Birth data for Wayde is available in 87 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Wayde reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 33.0% percentile (ranked #439) with 116 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 116 births per million (ranked 33.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wayde ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 13.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wayde".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Wayde is pronounced as wayd, which has 1 syllables.
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