Sadhbh
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sadhbh is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ireland. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘goodness’; early name, associated with a saintly/legendary bearer; anglicised as Sabia, Sophia, Sarah.
- IEIreland1 in 2.2K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 1.2M
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- Sources
- 53 ●
- 1 in 13M ◐
across 1 country
424 records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
‘goodness’; early name, associated with a saintly/legendary bearer; anglicised as Sabia, Sophia, Sarah.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #228 | 4,307 | 224 rec. | — | 145 | Sadhbh | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 133 | 27 rec. | — | 8 | Sadhbh | 28 |
| AU Australia | — | 96 | 76 rec. | — | 1 | Sadhbh | 25 |
| US United States | — | 74 | 67 rec. | — | — | Sadhbh | 26 |
| DE Germany | — | 10 | 9 rec. | — | — | Sadhbh | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 8 | 6 rec. | — | 1 | Sadhbh | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 8 | 2 rec. | — | — | Sadhbh | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 1 rec. | — | listed | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.6K95%
- French521%
- Hindi491%
- German241%
- Polish161%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,568 | 95% |
| French | 52 | 1% |
| Hindi | 49 | 1% |
| German | 24 | 1% |
| Polish | 16 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sadhbh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish Gaelic: traditional name, said to mean ‘sweet’. This was a very common female given name during the Middle Ages. Anglicized forms: Sabia, Sabina, Sive .
as a word
In Irish, a female given name from Old Irish
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 36 |
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 41 |
| 2001 | 47 |
| 2002 | 52 |
| 2003 | 66 |
| 2004 | 65 |
| 2005 | 77 |
| 2006 | 78 |
| 2007 | 95 |
| 2008 | 107 |
| 2009 | 111 |
| 2010 | 117 |
| 2011 | 132 |
| 2012 | 113 |
| 2013 | 108 |
| 2014 | 144 |
| 2015 | 123 |
| 2016 | 108 |
| 2017 | 104 |
| 2018 | 114 |
| 2019 | 145 |
IE CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) — 22 years between 1998–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sadhbh Béan Ó Mailchonaireb. 1301IEIrish poet and historian
- Sadhbh Doyleb. 2000IEIrish association football player
- Sadhbh McGrathb. 2004Irish rugby union player (born 2004)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 145 | #37 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2014 | 144 | #44 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2011 | 132 | #56 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2015 | 123 | #53 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2010 | 117 | #64 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2018 | 114 | #52 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2012 | 113 | #61 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2009 | 111 | #68 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2016 | 108 | #57 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2013 | 108 | #67 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2008 | 107 | #66 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2017 | 104 | #61 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 59 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sadhbh?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Sadhbh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Sadhbh have the most bearers?
- Sadhbh is most frequently recorded in Ireland, where it is most often spelled sadhbh.
- How common is Sadhbh compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Sadhbh is the 228th most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.
- Is Sadhbh a male or female name?
- Sadhbh is a female 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.
- What does the name Sadhbh mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘goodness’; early name, associated with a saintly/legendary bearer; anglicised as Sabia, Sophia, Sarah.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sadhbh” — the 228th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.