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Slade

Pronunciation
[Slade]
Gender
Male
Meaning
From The Valley
Origin
English

Slade Popularity Snapshot

Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 5,884 baby boys have been named Slade. The name peaked in 2007 with 246 US births that year (rank #855). In 2024, ranked #1051 nationally — 196 places below its 2007 peak.

Top States for Slade

Based on 1910–2024 US SSA state-level records, the three states with the most Slade births are: Texas (874), Louisiana (242), California (202).

Other English-Origin Names Like Slade

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5-Letter Names Starting with S

Names with Slade's exact length and starting letter: Saada, Sabah, Saber, Sabih, Sabir.

Quick Facts About Slade

5,642
English baby names in our dictionary
3,391
English male names
200
5-letter S-names in our dictionary
691
S-male names total
2007–2010
years of US SSA records (4 total)
887
total US births named Slade (all years)

US Popularity History (2007–2010)

📉 Falling fast: Slade dropped 133 places in the US boys ranking over the last 3 years (#855 in 2007 → #988 in 2010).

Annual US births named Slade by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2007 with 246 boys named Slade (boy rank #855 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2010, ranked #988 for boys (200 US births). That's 133 places below its 2007 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Slade Most Popular?

Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Slade the strongest states are Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas.

Strongest boys-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Arkansas #488 49
2 Mississippi #493 26
3 Kansas #594 23
4 Louisiana #618 72
5 Alabama #625 72
6 Utah #629 61
7 Oklahoma #655 45
8 Kentucky #683 23
9 Indiana #775 24
10 Texas #782 226

Weakest boys-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Ohio #927 35
2 Georgia #874 60
3 Missouri #873 18
4 Washington #855 22
5 Arizona #851 26
6 Colorado #809 18
7 Tennessee #784 41
8 Texas #782 226
9 Indiana #775 24
10 Kentucky #683 23

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Slade in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

NameMeaningGenderOrigin
Slaed From The Valley Male English

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