# Shadrach (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shadrach/  
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 | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Sedrach, Shedrack, Shadrak, Sidrach, Sydrac |
| US babies named this | 785 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 785 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 54, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew שדרך (šdrk /⁠šadrak⁠/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *čiθráh with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 5,905 |
| 2012 | 17 | 5,447 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,356 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5,948 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,478 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,699 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,721 |
| 2018 | 21 | 4,713 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,760 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,418 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,497 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5,826 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,460 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7,198 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,139 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,158 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2,941 |
| 2011 | 10 | 2,039 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Սեդրակ

## People named Shadrach

- Shadrach Bond, American politician: 1st Governor of Illinois; Illinois Territory congressman (1773-1832)

## 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.