Sadie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sadie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of Sarah, but now generally considered as an independent name.
- USUnited States1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.2K
- CACanada≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 447 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- Old Frenchfrom(measured from records)
- Latinsapius(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Sadie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sadie | 16 |
| US United States | #999 | 75,243 | 1 in 4.4K | 75K | Sadie | 447 |
| GB United Kingdom | #712 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 77 | Sadie | 215 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Sadie | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 54 | Sadie | 149 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Sadie | 11 |
| JM Jamaica | #130 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Sadie | 10 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 375 | — | 2 |
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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joan Leslieb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1925-2015)
- Sadie Plantb. 1964GBBritish writer (born 1964)
- Sadie Frostb. 1965GBEnglish actress and producer
- Sadie Benningb. 1973USqueer feminist visual artist (born 1973)
- Sadie Katzb. 1978USAmerican actress and writer
- Sadie Westb. 1988USAmerican pornographic actress, born 1988
- Sadie Calvanob. 1997USAmerican actress (born 1997)
- Sadie Stanleyb. 2001USAmerican actress and singer
- Sadie Sinkb. 2002USAmerican actress (born 2002)
- Sadie Sandlerb. 2006USAmerican actress
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 65 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 75K | #691 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 4.2K | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 375 | #1,422 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 346 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 134 | #691 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 77 | #11 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 54 | #49 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 49 | #87 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2024 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2004 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 are other forms of the name Sadie?
- In the etymology graph, Sara, Sally and Sarita are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Sarah.
- Is Sadie a male or female name?
- Sadie 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.
- Where does the name Sadie come from?
- Originally a pet form of Sarah, but now generally considered as an independent name. The exact formation is not clear: probably a nursery form. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Sadie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of Sarah, but now generally considered as an independent name.
- In which country does Sadie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 thousand people named Sadie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sadie.
- Where is Sadie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sadie is densest in the United States — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sadie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 75,243 people named Sadie in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Sadie compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Sadie is the 130th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sadieThe 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, “Sadie” — the 130th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.