as a Last Name
- 6,392
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Shade
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and English: 1. topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, from Old English scēad ‘boundary’. 2. nickname for a very thin man, from Middle English schade ‘shadow’, ‘wraith’. 3. Americanized spelling of German and Dutch Schade.
| 4,748th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,392
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Shade per capita
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