Name meaning & stats
Wade
Wade means “ford”. 66,059 US babies since 1940, peak 1970.
What it means
“ford”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1970
66,059 US babies were named Wade between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Wade (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1970)