Shade

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 57.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
#682
1880 · 8 births
Debut · boys
1880
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,156
since 1880

Shade over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201885peak #1,838, 1986peak #682, 1880girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#7,19411
2024#15,2935#5,44317
2023—#5,07519
2022—#6,14714
2021—#4,93619
2020#13,4536#5,98014
2019#15,5395#4,95119
2018#15,6825#4,73920
2017—#4,74620
2016—#6,05314
2015#16,4195#4,40722
2014—#6,63212
2013—#4,80419
2012#16,8695#3,89426
2011#11,1819#4,98318
2010#10,45110#4,51721
2009#13,7047#5,10218
2008#9,47612#3,92126
2007#10,81810#3,68728
2006#11,4179#4,00124
2005#6,24519#4,19821
2004#11,6248#5,24615
2003#5,23523#4,11420
2002#5,44421#4,50217
2001#3,94032#4,30218
2000#3,66435#3,76421
1999#3,97029#2,93928
1998#3,57333#3,09225
1997#3,03639#2,44933
1996#2,90141#3,02124
1995#3,15236#2,84725
1994#2,54149#2,95124
1993#2,21759#2,50929
1992#3,09137#3,74816
1991#2,79042#5,5219
1990#3,15635#4,67311
1989#2,57244#3,61815
1988#2,53942#3,70513
1987#2,49341#4,9688
1986#1,83861#5,3327
1985#2,80433#5,7856
1984——
1983#10,2755#2,91215
1982—#4,2349
1981—#6,2625
1980—#5,5256
1979#10,2105#4,4038
1978—#3,8579
1977—#4,5827
1976#8,1566#4,9356
1975—#3,9418
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1972—#3,9637
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1968—#4,1365
1967—#3,9665
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1964—#3,6016
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1962—#3,6406
1961—#2,9009
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1952—#2,8758
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1950—#3,6815
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1945—#2,9966
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1943—#3,5385
1942—#3,2126
1941—#3,1336
1940—#3,4595
1939—#3,4805
1938—#2,6468
1937—#3,1756
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1935—#3,6455
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1932—#3,7765
1931—#2,6519
1930—#2,60910
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1928—#2,04815
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1925—#2,9369
1924—#3,5057
1923—#3,4677
1922—#3,5327
1921—#2,05916
1920—#4,2865
1919—#2,66510
1918—#2,26013
1917—#2,09114
1916—#3,1777
1915—#2,18412
1914—#2,10110
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1910—#1,4216
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1907—#1,2006
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1892—#8617
1891—#8416
1890—#9945
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1887—#8196
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1885—#7657
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1882—#7547
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1880—#6828
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Shade was already there! It came in at #682, and was given to 8 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Shade
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,751 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #7,194)
  • 1,214 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #7,194)
  • 2,787 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #7,194)
  • Biggest jump: 153 spots in 1891 (#994 → #841)
  • Biggest drop: 20 spots in 1892 (#841 → #861)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1880 at #682 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1890–1892
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,811
  • Highest: 1 in 13,811 boys born in 1880 were named Shade (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 19.4% of all boys named Shade (224) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2004
  • Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s28#682 (1880)#755
1890s18#841 (1891)#899
1900s6#1,200 (1907)#1,200
1910s72#1,421 (1910)#2,271
1920s66#2,048 (1928)#3,119
1930s48#2,609 (1930)#3,140
1940s28#2,996 (1945)#3,268
1950s13#2,875 (1952)#3,278
1960s31#2,900 (1961)#3,649
1970s45#3,857 (1978)#4,280
1980s84#2,912 (1983)#4,705
1990s224#2,449 (1997)#3,375
2000s208#3,687 (2007)#4,284
2010s191#3,894 (2012)#4,973
2020s94#4,936 (2021)#5,796

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Shade in 1885

boys
#765
7 births · 1 in 15,400 boys

Top boys' names in 1885

  1. #1John8,756
  2. #2William8,044
  3. #3James5,175
  4. #4George4,674
  5. #5Charles4,599
  6. #6Frank3,067
  7. #7Joseph2,540
  8. #8Henry2,406
  9. #9Robert2,322
  10. #10Thomas2,266
  11. #765Shade7
More about 1885

boys

107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 15,400 of them was named Shade, which outranked 30.3% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shade
  1. #700Wayman8
  2. #700Webb8
  3. #700Wilton8
  4. #765Shade7
  5. #765Adolf7
  6. #765Alois7
  7. #765Bailey7
  8. #836Ab6
  9. #836Abel6
  10. #836Algie6

Tied with 70 names at #765; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1884
Risers
  1. ↑ 426Bryant#848 → #422
  2. ↑ 424Butler#971 → #547
  3. ↑ 424Cyril#971 → #547
  4. ↑ 409Gerhard#848 → #439
  5. ↑ 394Rowland#971 → #577
Fallers
  1. ↓ 520Clarance#416 → #936
  2. ↓ 416Oswald#520 → #936
  3. ↓ 389Doctor#547 → #936
  4. ↓ 366Dexter#570 → #936
  5. ↓ 366Gustaf#570 → #936

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1885 →