as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin either a local name from the medieval vocabulary word wade ‘ford’ (old English (ge)wæd), or else from a medieval given name representing a survival of Old English Wada, a derivative of wadan ‘to go’, borne, according to legend, by a great sea-giant.
| 676th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 64,114
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Wade per capita
- 1970
- marked the height of its popularity
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