Wayde

Where Wayde comes from

Wayde hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Wayde Preston born
    American actor
  3. 1959
    Peak, #493
    252 babies named Wayde — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,097.
  5. 1992
    Wayde van Niekerk born
    South African sprinter
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Wayde van Niekerk · South African sprinter, born 1992
  • Wayde Preston · American actor, 1929–1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.