Wade

Wade is the 331st most common surname in the United States, shared by 93,102 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,210.

By the numbers

People: 93,102
Rank: 331st
How common: 1 in 3,210
Per 100,000: 31.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English wæd (“a ford”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wade described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.5%
Black, not Hispanic 28.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Wade

Dwyane Wade (born 1982)American basketball player
Abdoulaye Wade (born 1926)3rd President of Senegal
Virginia Wade (born 1945)British tennis player
Jess Wade (born 1988)British physicist, Wikimedian, and campaigner for gender inclusion in science
Jeremy Wade (born 1956)British television presenter and author
Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895)British linguist
Jason Wade (born 1980)American singer and guitarist
Dean Wade (born 1996)basketball player

People named Wade with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Wade

Also a first name

Wade has been given to 76,666 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1970. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.