Zadie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zədi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zadie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 190K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)
1,755 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zadie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zadie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,755 | 1 in 190K | 1.7K | Zadie | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Zadie | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | 11 | — | — |
1,755 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zadie 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.
In Romanian, obsolete form of zadă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ZÁDIE, zadii, s. f. Țesătură de lână în costumul popular țărănesc feminin din unele regiuni, decorată cu dungi late negre, alternând cu altele roșii sau portocalii și purtată ca fustă, o parte în față și cealaltă în spate.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zadie Smithb. 1975GBEnglish novelist, essayist and short story writer (born 1975)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,289 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 174 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 160 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 156 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 155 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 152 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 139 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 132 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 131 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 115 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 112 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 94 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Zadie a male or female name?
- Zadie 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.
- How do you pronounce Zadie?
- A machine transcription gives /zədi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zadie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Zadie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zadie.
- Where is Zadie most common?
- Zadie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 190 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zadie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,755 people named Zadie in 2020, about 1 in 190 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zadie?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zadieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Zadie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.