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The surname Lade

A Norse surname, carried by 1,106 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L300

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lade is more common than 85.8% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

* As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”). * As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig. * Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”). * As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,106 people named Lade in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 279,155 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,131.

#23,096
rank among US surnames
1,106
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-2.2%
change since 2000 (was #21,526)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#23,096Lade1,106279,155
#23,100Huckabay1,105279,408

Who is named Lade

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

88% of people named Lade identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

  • White (not Hispanic) 88%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 4.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 3.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lades

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

  • Connor Lade
    American soccer player, born 1989

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lade

Lade has the Soundex code L300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L300.

Other Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lade come from?
* As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”). * As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig. * Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”). * As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).
How common is the surname Lade?
1,106 people in the United States had the surname Lade in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 279,155 Americans. It ranked 23,096th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lade?
In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Lade identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Lade?
Connor Lade, American soccer player.
Where is the surname Lade most common?
Wikidata records people named Lade in the United States.
Is the surname Lade getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,131 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,106 in 2010, down 2.2%.