# Sadie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sadie/  
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 | /ˈseɪdi/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Sadeigh |
| US babies named this | 149,922 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 241 / 149,681 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,818, 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 | 2,598 | 123 |
| 2012 | 2,595 | 120 |
| 2013 | 4,663 | 49 |
| 2014 | 4,871 | 46 |
| 2015 | 4,763 | 52 |
| 2016 | 4,299 | 60 |
| 2017 | 3,724 | 71 |
| 2018 | 3,267 | 87 |
| 2019 | 3,164 | 87 |
| 2020 | 3,204 | 78 |
| 2021 | 3,224 | 78 |
| 2022 | 3,302 | 68 |
| 2023 | 3,597 | 59 |
| 2024 | 3,738 | 57 |
| 2025 | 4,168 | 50 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 8 | 2,910 |
| 1936 | 7 | 3,104 |
| 1937 | 6 | 3,471 |
| 1938 | 5 | 3,955 |
| 1940 | 6 | 3,409 |
| 1941 | 5 | 3,925 |
| 1988 | 5 | 8,283 |
| 1997 | 5 | 10,523 |
| 2004 | 6 | 11,090 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,638 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,199 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,877 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,991 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,415 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,878 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 328 | 159 |
| 2012 | 300 | 172 |
| 2013 | 353 | 148 |
| 2014 | 289 | 183 |
| 2015 | 292 | 189 |
| 2016 | 319 | 173 |
| 2017 | 346 | 160 |
| 2018 | 346 | 150 |
| 2019 | 351 | 142 |
| 2020 | 334 | 152 |
| 2021 | 338 | 154 |
| 2022 | 339 | 145 |
| 2023 | 387 | 129 |
| 2024 | 374 | 132 |
| 2025 | 367 | 134 |

## People named Sadie

- Sadie Frost, English actress and producer
- Sadie Stanley, American actress and singer
- Sadie Plant, British writer (born 1964)
- Sadie Sandler, American actress (born 2006)
- Sadie Maubet Bjornsen, American cross-country skier
- Sadie Calvano, American actress (born 1997)
- Sadie Alexandru, American actress
- Sadie Robertson, American television personality
- Sadie Dupuis, American musician
- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the United States
- Joan Leslie, American actress (1925-2015)

## 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.