Name: Wade
Gender: Male
Usage: Wade is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Wade are in general originating from France, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Wade is: Ford, Cross the water.
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Numerology of the first name Wade: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Wade is ranked on the 966th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 558000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.008% of the population. The name Wade has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Wade for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Wade is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Wade Allison (born 1941), British physicist and Oxford professor
- Wade Belak (1976–2011), former National Hockey League player
- Wade Boggs (born 1958), former Major League Baseball player
- Wade Cunningham (born 1984), New Zealand race car driver
- Wade Davis (born 1953), Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer
- Wade Davis (baseball) (born 1985), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wade Hampton (disambiguation), various persons of that name
- Wade Hayes (born 1969), American country music artist
- Wade Houston, former collegiate basketball player and coach, father of former National Basketball Association player Alan Houston
- Wade MacNeil (born 1984), Canadian singer and guitarist of post-hardcore band Alexisonfire
- Wade Mainer (1907–2011), American singer and banjoist
- Wade Phillips (born 1947), National Football League defensive coordinator and former head coach
- Wade Rathke (born 1948), co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
- Wade Redden (born 1977), National Hockey League player
- Wade Regehr, Professor of Neurobiology in Harvard Medical School's Department of Neurobiology
- Wade Robson (born 1982), Australian dancer, director, producer, songwriter and choreographer
- Wade Schalles (born 1951), American champion amateur wrestler
- Wade Ward (1892–1971), American old-time music banjo player and fiddler
- Wade Watts (1919–1998), African American gospel preacher and civil rights activist
English: transferred use of the surname, which is derived either from a medieval given name or from the medieval vocabulary word wade ford. The former represents an Old English personal name, derived from wadan to go, which according to legend was borne by a great sea-giant.
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