Slade

Where Slade comes from

Slade hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1928
    Slade Gorton born
    American politician
  2. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,173 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1970
    Slade Brockman born
    Australian politician
  4. 2007
    Peak, #855
    246 babies named Slade — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Slade Gorton · American politician, 1928–2020
  • Slade Brockman · Australian politician, born 1970
  • Slade Cutter · American football player and Naval commander, 1911–2005
  • Slade Heathcott · American baseball player, born 1990
  • Slade Norris · American football player, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.