Wade



Gender:
Origin: English
478 famous people named Wade found on Wikipedia.
69647 male, 163 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 361-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 183-th in year 1966
Used in: English

Meanings

Wade is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Wade Allison (born 1941), British physicist and Oxford professor
Wade Baldwin IV (born 1996), American basketball player
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 (anthropologist) (born 1953), Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer
Wade Davis (baseball) (born 1985), Major League Baseball pitcher
Wade Hampton, various persons of that name
Wade Hayes (born 1969), American country music artist
Wade Helliwell, (born 1978) retired Australian basketball player
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 Miley (born 1986), Major League Baseball pitcher
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


Old English wadan "to go forward, proceed, move, stride, advance" (the modern sense perhaps represented in oferwaden "wade across"), from Proto-Germanic *wadan (source also of Old Norse vaða, Danish vade, Old Frisian wada, Dutch waden, Old High German watan, German waten "to wade"), from PIE root *wadh- (2) "to go," found only in Germanic and Latin (source also of Latin vadere "to go," vadum "shoal, ford," vadare "to wade"). Italian guado, French gué "ford" are Germanic loan-words. Specifically "walk into or through water" (or any substance which impedes the free motion of limbs) c. 1200. Originally a strong verb (past tense wod, past participle wad); weak since 16c. Figurative sense of "to go into" (action, battle, etc.) is recorded from late 14c. Related: Waded; wading. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, [Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"]


Ford in river crossing; to go, advance.

Famous People: 478 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Dwyane Wade 1982 American basketball player
2 Wade Boggs 1958 American baseball player
3 Wade Phillips 1947 American football coach
4 Jeremy Wade 1956 British television presenter and author
5 Virginia Wade 1945 English tennis player
6 Wade Williams 1961 American actor
7 Wade Robson 1982 Choreographer, creative director, and songwriter
8 Brandon Wade 1970 American businessman
9 Dominic Wade 1990 American boxer
10 James Wade 1983 English darts player
11 Fiona Wade 1979 English actress
12 Rachel Wade 1990 American murderer
13 Jason Wade 1980 Musician from the United States
14 Wade Belak 1976 Canadian ice hockey player
15 Will Wade 1982 American college basketball coach
16 Wade Hampton III 1818 American politician
17 Brian Patrick Wade 1978 American actor
18 Wade Domínguez 1966 American actor
19 Laura Wade 1977 British playwright
20 Matthew Wade 1987 Australian cricketer
21 Wade Baldwin IV 1996 American basketball player
22 Wade Morissette 1974 Singer
23 Joivan Wade 1993 British actor and writer
24 Wade Wilson 1959 American football player and coach
25 Wade Miley 1986 Baseball pitcher
26 Benjamin Wade 1800 American politician
27 Abdoulaye Wade 1926 3rd President of Senegal
28 Wade Nichols 1946 American actor
29 Wade Hayes 1969 American country singer
30 Jenna Wade
31 Wade Davis 1953 Canadian Anthropologist
32 Christian Wade 1991 Rugby union player from England
33 Ginnie Wade 1843 Seamstress, was the only Gettysburg civilian killed directly during the Battle of Gettysburg
34 Wade Redden 1977 Canadian ice hockey player
35 Wade MacNeil 1984 Canadian musician
36 Wade Bowen American singer-songwriter
37 Roger Alan Wade 2000 American singer-songwriter
38 Wade Graham 1990 Australian rugby league player
39 Nicholas Wade 1942 British writer
40 Wade Flemons 1940 American musician
41 Jenny Wade 1978 American actress
42 George Wade 1673 British Field Marshal
43 Andrew Wade 1984 American record producer
44 Wade MacLauchlan 1954 32nd Premier of Prince Edward Island
45 Wallace Wade 1892 American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach
46 Bill Wade 1930 American football player
47 Trevin Wade 1989 American Football player
48 Wade Keller 1971 American wrestling journalist
49 Wade Dooley 1957 English rugby union player
50 Wade LeBlanc 1984 American baseball player
51 Wade Elliott 1978 Footballer
52 Wade Barrett 1976 American soccer player
53 Wade Hampton I 1754 United States general
54 Ernestine Wade 1906 American actress
55 Karim Wade 1968 Senegalese politician
56 Kevin Wade 1954 American screenwriter
57 Wade Welles 1972 Fictional human
58 Wade Watts 1919 American civil rights activist
59 Wade Cook 1949 American financial guru
60 Lisa Wade 1979 Dutch presenter / writer
61 Thomas Francis Wade 1818 British linguist
62 Aron Wade 1970 Belgian actor
63 Ed Wade 1956 American baseball executive
64 Wade Smith 1981 American football player, offensive lineman
65 Paul Wade 1962 Australian soccer player
66 Wade Guyton 1972 American artist
67 Bobby Wade 1981 American football player
68 Wade Townsend 1983 American baseball player
69 Wade H. McCree 1920 American judge
70 Charles Paget Wade 1883 English architect and artist
71 John Francis Wade 1711 English hymnist
72 Wade Martin 1979 British music producer
73 Doug Wade 1941 Australian rules footballer
74 Wayne Wade 1959 Jamaican singer
75 Lloyd Wade British singer
76 Wade Hampton II 1791 US Army officer
77 Viviane Wade 1932 First lady of Senegal
78 Wade H. Haislip 1889 Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1949 to 1951
79 Jeptha Wade 1811 American entrepreneur, daguerreotypist and portrait painter (1811-1890)
80 Wade Hemsworth 1916 Canadian singer
81 Stuart Wade 1969 Actor, pantomimist
82 Wade Rathke 1948 American labor organizer
83 Wade Houston American basketball player-coach
84 Wade Sanders Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
85 Cynthia Wade 2000 American documentary film director, producer and cinematographer
86 Wade Boteler 1888 Actor
87 Wade Schalles American wrestler
88 Wade Dekker 1994 Australian association football player
89 William Wade 1546 English politician, diplomat, and Lieutenant of the Tower of London
90 Wade Brookbank 1977 Canadian ice hockey player
91 Wade Cunningham 1984 New Zealand racing driver
92 Russell Wade 1917 American actor
93 Scott Wade 1960 Australian rules footballer and coach
94 Margaret Wade 1912 American basketball player and coach
95 Wade Harman 1963 American football coach
96 Wade McKinnon 1981 Australian rugby league player
97 Obie Scott Wade American screenwriter
98 Jonathan Wade 1984 American football player
99 Billy Wade 1930 American racing driver
100 Sonny Wade 1947 Canadian football player
101 Wade Flaherty 1968 Canadian ice hockey player
102 Johnnie Wade British actor
103 Todd Wade 1976 American football player
104 Wade Mainer 1907 20th century American Bluegrass musician
105 Lance C. Wade 1915 United States-born British flying ace
106 Wade Dubielewicz 1979 Canadian ice hockey player
107 Chris Wade American fraudster
108 Peter Wade British anthropologist
109 Charles Wade 1863 New South Wales politician and Premier of New South Wales
110 Kirsty Wade 1962 British middle-distance runner
111 Morgan Wade 1983 American bicycle motocross rider
112 Wade Henderson 1948 American academic
113 Mark Wade 1965 American basketball player-coach
114 Tyler Wade 1994
115 Michael Wade 1954 British businessman
116 Wade Noonan 1971 Politician
117 Sally Wade 1984 Welsh footballer
118 Wade Small 1984 English footballer
119 Thomas Wade 1961 Canadian singer
120 Martha Nix Wade 1967 American actress
121 Mitchell Wade 1963 American defence contractor
122 David Wade 1911 American lieutenant general
123 Rick Wade American businessman and politician
124 Wade Ward 1892 American musician
125 Wade Simmons 1973 Canadian racing cyclist
126 Adam Wade 1968 American drummer
127 Wade Manning 1955 American football player
128 Wade Miller 1983 Canadian football player
129 Wade Walker 1923 American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
130 Wade Brorby 1934 United States federal judge
131 Julian Wade 1989 Dominican footballer
132 Tommy Wade 1942 American football player
133 Steve Wade Australian singer
134 Wade Key 1946 American football player
135 James Wade Jr. 1975 American basketball coach
136 Trevor Sidney Wade 1920 English fighter ace
137 Wade DesArmo Canadian skateboarder
138 Lorrenzo Wade 1985 College basketball player
139 Robert Wade 1944 New Zealand development scholar
140 Wade Von Grawbadger Comics artist
141 Wade Ormsby 1980 Professional golfer
142 Wade Burleson 1961 American minister
143 Wade Miquelon 1964 American engineer
144 Triston Wade 1993 American football player
145 Ben Wade 1922 American baseball player
146 Martin Joseph Wade 1861 United States federal judge
147 Melancthon S. Wade 1802 United States Army general during American Civil War
148 Charlie Wade 1950 American football player
149 Kenneth Wade 1932 British chemist
150 Wade Hamilton 1994
151 Wade Blasingame 1943 American baseball player
152 Asher Wade 1949 Israeli rabbi
153 Edward Wade 1802 American politician
154 Larry Wade 1974 American hurdler
155 Jared Wade American singer
156 Bob Wade 1943 American artist
157 Wade Legge 1934 Jazz pianist and bassist
158 Wade Allison 1941 Physicist
159 Omar Wade 1990 Senegalese footballer
160 Wade Marcus American musician
161 Wade Ray 1913 American Western Swing fiddler and vocalist
162 Wade Keliikipi 1991 American football player
163 Wade Crane 1944 American pool player
164 April Wade American actress
165 Aaron Wade 1916 American boxer
166 Wade Thompson 1988 Australian rules footballer
167 James P. Wade 1930 American writer
168 Wade Bell 1945 American middle-distance runner
169 Wade McCollum American actor
170 Tristan Wade American poker player
171 Sean Wade 1966 New Zealand distance runner
172 Wade Richey 1976 American football player
173 Alex Wade 1966 English lawyer and journalist
174 Gary R. Wade American justice
175 Henry Wade 1876
176 Horace M. Wade 1916 American general
177 Wade Hampton Frost 1880 American academic
178 Michael J. Wade American biologist
179 Christopher Wade English protestant martyr
180 Bernie L. Wade 1963 American bishop
181 Terrell Wade 1973 American baseball player
182 Donald Wade, Baron Wade 1904 British politician
183 Wade Bootes 1974 Australian bicycle motocross rider
184 Joe Wade 1921 English footballer and manager
185 Wade Webber 1967 American soccer player
186 Wade Campbell 1961 Canadian ice hockey defenceman
187 Nathaniel Wade English republican
188 Wade Hall-Craggs 1966 British rower
189 Wade Walton 1923 American blues musician
190 Wade Randolph Hampton
191 Alune Wade 1978 Senegalese singer-songwriter, bassist and music producer
192 Wade Chapman 1976 Australian rules footballer
193 Wade Taylor 1965 American baseball player
194 Mark Alan Wade American musician
195 Wade Kach 1947 American politician
196 Richard Clement Wade 1921 American historian
197 Hugh Wade 1901 American politician
198 Sidney Wade 1951 American poet
199 Wade Megan 1990
200 Wade Rowland 1944 Canadian writer