Suede
Masculine · “Swedish”
Suede is given to both — 393 boys and 120 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Suede is Sweden. The French called the soft leather gants de Suède — Swedish gloves — and English took the country's name for the material and forgot where it came from.
How old is the name Suede?
Suede first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. Suede is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Suedes are still in diapers. About 400 people named Suede are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Suede most popular?
Suede peaked in 2025, reaching #1554 nationally. Today it ranks #1554, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Svear to Suede
The story of Suede
The material name entered English around 1880, and the country behind it was forgotten within a generation. Word-names taken from texture and material rose in American naming from the 2010s alongside Denim, Linen and Cashmere. Suede appears in the American registers in that decade for both sexes and is in current use.
Meaning
Swedish; the soft leather
From the French Suède, 'Sweden', in the phrase gants de Suède, 'Swedish gloves' — the undressed kidskin used for them. English borrowed the country's name as the material's name in the nineteenth century. Sweden's own name comes from the Svear, an early people of the region.
How the name formed
- Svear
- Suède
- suede
- Suede
Related forms: Suède · Swayde
Pronouncing Suede
SWAYD
One syllable. It is a homophone of the ordinary English material name; French Suède is two syllables.
Nicknames for Suede
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1992
- Most boys named
- 2025110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1554reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +34.1%110 in 2025, from 82
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Suede in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Suède in French — related form
- Swayde in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Suedes among us
people named Suede are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 15,528 born in 2025 was named Suede
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kainoa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Suede's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kainoa climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kainoa's path sketches the road Suede is walking now.
Suede is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Suede is headed
Suede is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 173% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Suede beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Suede in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The forgotten-country etymology is a genuinely good piece of word history.
- One syllable, clean, and never mispronounced.
- It belongs to a current family of material word-names.
- It is an ordinary English noun for a material.
- It is thoroughly unisex and does not signal sex on paper.
- It is very new and has almost no record behind it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Suedes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Suede are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Suede in 2025?
- Suede ranks #1554 among US boy names in 2025, with 110 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Suede?
- About 1 in every 15,528 US boys born in 2025 was named Suede — 110 in all.
- Will my child share the name Suede with classmates?
- Suede will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Suede
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