Wåde

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Wåde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 97,040 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”).

  • DMDominica1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
  • KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 2.8K
  • GYGuyana1 in 3.3K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

97,040 people, 2010

Record sources
39 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wade in US United States, TL Timor-Leste.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Wåde: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Wåde
  1. Middle Englishwaden(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishwadan(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*wadaną(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*weh₂dʰ-“to go”(measured from records)

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include German waten (“wade”) and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”) (whence English evade, invade, pervade).

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Wåde is found

(measured from records)

Wåde counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Wåde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—97,0401 in 3.4K97KWade39
ES Spain—9611 in 52K961—3
GY Guyana—2241 in 3.3K224——
AR Argentina—2081 in 219K208——
NO Norway—981 in 56K98Wåde9
DM Dominica—501 in 1.5K50——
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—191 in 2.8K19——
GD Grenada—141 in 8.1K19——
TL Timor-Leste#312———Wade1

97,040 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Wåde is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Wade, Waade, Wadé, Waede, Wadè

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Wade

  • Hebrew surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Also written Wade, וייד, Waide, WAid

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Wåde mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Wåde?
In the United States, the national register counted about 97 thousand people named Wåde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wade. After it come Spain, Guyana, Argentina and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Wåde most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wåde is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wåde?
In the United States, the national register counted 97,040 people named Wåde in 2010, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Wåde compared with other names?
In Timor-Leste, Wåde is the 312th most common surname of 2,973 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wåde” — ranked 297th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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