Fade
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Weak; insipid; tasteless
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/feɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fade is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 7K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Weak; insipid; tasteless.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fade 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #755 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Fade | 13 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Fade | 13 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Fade | 23 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 340K | — | Fade | 20 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Fade | 14 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Fade | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 42 | 1 in 243K | 43 | — | 10 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Fade is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, de thadde, louange.
as a nameRussian Names
In German, bland, flavorless, stale, boring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of fadar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, tasteless, insipid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite of fad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fade mean, and where does it come from?
- Weak; insipid; tasteless. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fade?
- A machine transcription gives /feɪd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Fade a male or female name?
- Fade is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Fade have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Fade in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fade.
- How common is the name Fade?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 42 people named Fade, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.
- How common is Fade compared with other names?
- In Syria, Fade is the 755th most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fade?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fadeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fade” — the 755th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.