Sadia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Saadia in FR France, ES Spain, MA Morocco and 1 more, Садия in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, Sadiya in IN India, NG Nigeria and Sa'Diya in UZ Uzbekistan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sadia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name15K records spelled Sadia9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Sádia, Sadía, Sädiå, Şadia, Sàdia

• Swahili given name13K records spelled Sadia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Kenya, Pakistan

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Şadia

• a separate given name1.5K records spelled Sadia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Pakistan, Morocco

  Also written Sadïa, Sâdia, Sádia

• Thai given name450 records spelled Sadia8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos, Pakistan

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written ซาเดีย, Shaday, ซาเดย์, ซาเดย, Sadea

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sadia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, feminine singular of sadio

  as a word·kaikki.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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Cheikha Rimittib. 1923DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian female raï singer(8 May 1923- 15 May 2006)
• Sadia Dehlvib. 1957INauthor and columnist
• Sadia Imamb. 1971PKPakistani actor-model
• Sadia Arshadb. 1985PKbadminton player
• Sadia Khanb. 1987PKPakistani actress and model
• Sadia Yousufb. 1989PKcricketer
• Sadia Khateebb. 1997INActress
• Sadia Aymanb. 1998BDBangladeshi Actress
• Sadia Kabeyab. 2002GBEngland international rugby union player
• Sadia ShepardUSfilmmaker

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 463 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sadia?

We estimate roughly 8.9 thousand people bear Sadia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Sadia have the most bearers?

Sadia is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sadia.

How common is Sadia compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Sadia is the 5th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Sadia a male or female name?

Sadia 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 Sadia mean?

Recorded meaning: A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Sadi.