Shade
Shade is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 737th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199733 births
- Best rank
- #737in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,007people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,144 boys have been named Shade in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 33 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 20%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Shade is used for both sexes: 43% of its bearers are girls (863), most of them born around 1986.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Shade | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 18 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 72 | |
| 1920s | 66 | |
| 1930s | 48 | |
| 1940s | 28 | |
| 1950s | 13 | |
| 1960s | 31 | |
| 1970s | 45 | |
| 1980s | 84 | |
| 1990s | 224 | |
| 2000s | 208 | |
| 2010s | 191 | |
| 2020s | 82 |
In 1997, its biggest year
Shade was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Shade
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zackpeak 2008
- Gabepeak 2005
- Asapeak 2022
- Jeffersonpeak 2009
- Ebenpeak 2012
- Elishapeak 2008
- Humphreypeak 1924
- Marshalpeak 1999
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.