Sadie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sadie is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 97th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of Sarah, but now generally considered as an independent name.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 3K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 4.4K
  • CACanada1 in 6.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈82K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
404 ●

292K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.4K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

SadieLatin · English●307K records
ᲡადიეGeorgian · Georgian●3 records

Locally spelled Sadi in TR Türkiye.

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●

Derivation of Sadie: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sadie
  1. Old Frenchfrom●
  2. Latinsapius●

Originally a pet form of Sarah, but now generally considered as an independent name. The exact formation is not clear: probably a nursery form. Sage &, 3 Apparently from the name of the herb (Middle English sauge, via Old French from Latin salvia), cf. Sorrel and pBay. In part it may also have been taken from the vocabulary word meaning ‘wise’ (from Latin sapius).

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sadie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—75,109245K rec.1 in 4.4K75KSadie404
GB United Kingdom#71623,37819K rec.—77Sadie171
CA Canada#69712,6123.9K rec.—54Sadie121
AU Australia#83811,6114.5K rec.—391Sadie99
BR Brazil—5,884△5 rec.1 in 36K7.7K—3
IE Ireland#2663,141527 rec.—202Sadie33
IT Italy—1,0681.1K rec.—2Sadie14
DE Germany—866884 rec.—1Sadie45
JM Jamaica#97812819 rec.——Sadie9
RU Russia—643654 rec.——Sadie19
PH Philippines—5552.2K rec.——Sadie34
EG Egypt—379386 rec.——Sadie12

Roughly 75K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 4.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English307K85%
  • Spanish11K3%
  • 7.9K2%
  • German4.4K1%
  • French4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English306,98785%
Spanish11,1613%
7,8522%
German4,4251%
French4,0461%

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◐

Sadie is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name21K records spelled Sadie8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Sadié, Sadiè, Šadie

  • a separate given name8.5K records spelled Sadie3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Sadié, Sádie

  • Polish given name1.3K records spelled Sadie44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Bulgaria, North Macedonia

    Languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Садие, Sadi, Shadi, Şadi, Saadi

  • Greek given name380 records spelled Sadie2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Σαδιέ

  • Russian given name362 records spelled Sadie8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Садие, Сэди, Садіе

52 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●

Sadie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A diminutive of the female given name Sarah. Also a popular formal given name in the 19th century.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, diminutive of Sarah; princess

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • English: originally a pet form of SARAH , but now generally treated as an independent name. The exact formation is not clear.

    as a word

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●

02K4K6K1900195020004.9K · 2014

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Sadie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880317
1881366
1882391
1883425
1884466
1885514
1886562
1887519
1888691
1889664
1890680
1891617
1892724
1893706
1894745
1895829
1896827
1897757
1898808
1899705
1900895
1901676
1902716
1903683
1904703
1905750
1906748
1907771
1908770
1909749
1910886
1911806
19121,032
19131,112
19141,296
19151,458
19161,529
19171,404
19181,453
19191,412
19201,285
19211,249
19221,263
19231,180
19241,120
19251,051
19261,028
1927947
1928895
1929828
1930821
1931728
1932679
1933683
1934651
1935626
1936555
1937531
1938529
1939495
1940525
1941499
1942457
1943433
1944413
1945400
1946382
1947383
1948324
1949352
1950314
1951302
1952299
1953264
1954253
1955231
1956237
1957214
1958180
1959143
1960153
1961150
1962122
1963135
1964106
1965110
196691
1967102
196882
196980
197088
1971121
1972104
1973108
1974149
1975198
1976220
1977235
1978260
1979271
1980276
1981279
1982276
1983217
1984217
1985299
1986330
1987389
1988404
1989475
1990541
1991582
1992610
1993683
1994853
1995972
19961,058
19971,069
19981,123
19991,089
20001,316
20011,483
20021,566
20031,707
20041,753
20051,954
20062,233
20073,178
20083,163
20092,975
20102,638
20112,598
20122,595
20134,663
20144,871
20154,763
20164,299
20173,724
20183,267
20193,164
20203,204
20213,224
20223,302
20233,597
20243,738
20254,168

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Joan Leslie, b. 1925Sadie Plant, b. 1964Sadie Frost, b. 1965Sadie Benning, b. 1973Sadie Katz, b. 1978Sadie West, b. 1988Sadie Calvano, b. 1997Sadie Stanley, b. 2001Sadie Sink, b. 2002Sadie Sandler, b. 2006

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 63 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Sadie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202075K#691
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20254.2K—
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)2023391—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—375#1,422
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024346—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020217#91,198
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2019202#25
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010191#95,545
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—189#1,898
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000169#99,214
AU AustraliaAU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD)2025138#26
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)2025138—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 705 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sadie?
We estimate roughly 82 thousand people bear Sadie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Sadie have the most bearers?
We estimate about 75 thousand people bear Sadie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sadie.
How common is Sadie compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Sadie is the 97th most common given name of 20,217 given names recorded there.
Is Sadie a male or female name?
Sadie is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Sadie mean?
Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of Sarah, but now generally considered as an independent name.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Sadie” — the 97th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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