Saadia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saadia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name. Recorded meaning: happy; Toledo.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 743as Sadia
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.6Kas Sadia
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Saadia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 named Sadia, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sadia in PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh, AF Afghanistan and Sadiya in NG Nigeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
happy; Toledo
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saadia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #61 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 743 | 1 | Sadia | 103 |
| PK Pakistan | #153 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Sadia | 99 |
| NG Nigeria | #384 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Sadiya | 52 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Saadia | 32 |
| AF Afghanistan | #623 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Sadia | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,479 | 1 in 20K | 2.5K | Saadia | 29 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Page provides top names for Bangladesh published by Students of the World.; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Saadia Ibn Dananb. 1401ESRabbi and grammarian
- Saadia Azankotb. 1629MAMoroccan linguist
- Saadia Kobashib. 1904ILIsraeli politician (1904–1990)
- Saadia Mandelb. 1931ILIsraeli architect (1931-2017)
- Saadia Bahaderb. 1936EGEgyptian psychologist
- Saadia Marcianob. 1950ILIsraeli politician (1950-2007)
- Saadia Mosbahb. 1960TNTunisian anti-racist activist
- Saâdia Azgounb. 1969MAMoroccan actress
- Saadia Himib. 1984NLmodel and beauty queen from the Netherlands
- Saadia GacemDZAlgerian film director
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(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.5K | #1,497 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.3K | #781 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saadia mean, and where does it come from?
- happy; Toledo Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Is Saadia a male or female name?
- Saadia 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.
- In which country does Saadia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 219 thousand people named Sadia in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Saadia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,479 people named Saadia, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Saadia compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Saadia is the 61st most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saadiaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Saadia” — the 61st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.