# Ade (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ade/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 408 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 374 / 34 (8% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

The surname derives from medieval forms of Adam or Adrian.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | 15,381 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,362 |
| 2018 | 8 | 11,439 |
| 2022 | 6 | 13,619 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,319 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 8,154 |
| 2011 | 8 | 8,776 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,566 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,656 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,073 |
| 2016 | 17 | 5,322 |
| 2017 | 18 | 5,114 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,163 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,224 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,707 |
| 2021 | 12 | 6,707 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,272 |
| 2023 | 10 | 7,754 |
| 2024 | 8 | 8,998 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,203 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |

## People named Ade

- Ade Akinbiyi, association football player
- Ade Mafe, British sprinter
- Ade Resky Dwicahyo, Azerbaijani badminton player
- Ade Chandra, badminton player
- Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker artist (1914-2002)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.