Gad vs Wade

Gad

name
  • A male given name from Hebrew. 

  • A surname. 

  • One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad. 

  • The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah. 

Wade

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi. 

  • A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina. 

  • A topographic surname from Old English. 

  • Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County. 

  • A town in Aroostook County, Maine. 

  • A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade. 

  • An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio. 

How often have the words Gad and Wade occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )