# Sade (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sade/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,102 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 121 / 9,981 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 593, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 106 | 1,895 |
| 2012 | 86 | 2,203 |
| 2013 | 78 | 2,362 |
| 2014 | 67 | 2,644 |
| 2015 | 69 | 2,616 |
| 2016 | 50 | 3,270 |
| 2017 | 70 | 2,540 |
| 2018 | 76 | 2,401 |
| 2019 | 67 | 2,627 |
| 2020 | 73 | 2,414 |
| 2021 | 91 | 2,100 |
| 2022 | 87 | 2,188 |
| 2023 | 85 | 2,224 |
| 2024 | 88 | 2,170 |
| 2025 | 92 | 2,058 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 14 | 3,408 |
| 1987 | 9 | 4,889 |
| 1988 | 6 | 7,093 |
| 1989 | 17 | 3,423 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,356 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,899 |
| 1999 | 5 | 11,286 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,872 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,198 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,854 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,878 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,877 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,799 |
| 2024 | 6 | 12,094 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,548 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23 | 1,332 |
| 2011 | 25 | 1,269 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,525 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 11 | 2,340 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Sade

- Sade Baderinwa, American journalist
- Eila Pennanen, Finnish writer and translator (1916-1994)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.