Sadie

Name: Sadie: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Meaning: Originally a pet form of Sarah, but now generally considered as an independent name

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025

/ˈseɪdi/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Sadie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

USUnited States1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
JMJamaica≈1 in 5.2Kfew records
GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.4K

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 Sadie 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.

: United States (measured from records)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 447 (measured from records)
: 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

SadieLatin

სადიეGeorgian

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

Sadie

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).

Cited for this meaning 1

A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sadie, 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

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.

Where Sadie is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	#999	75,243	1 in 4.4K	75K	Sadie	447
GB United Kingdom	#712	≈9,300 est.	≈1 in 7.4K	77	Sadie	215
CA Canada	—	≈2,600 est.	≈1 in 16K	54	Sadie	149
AU Australia	—	≈1,600 est.	≈1 in 17K	391	Sadie	108
ZA South Africa	—	≈1,600 est.	≈1 in 41K	—	Sadie	45
JM Jamaica	#130	≈550 est.	≈1 in 5.2K	—	Sadie	10
IE Ireland	#491	≈520 est.	≈1 in 10K	202	Sadie	36
XK Kosovo	—	≈210 est.	≈1 in 7.7K	375	—	2

75,243 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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); 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 names spelled this way

Sadie is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish given name8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Argentina
Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese
Also written Sadié, Sadiè, Šadie
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Sadié, Sádie
Polish given name38 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Poland, United Kingdom
Languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Croatian
Also written Садие, Sadi, Shadi, Şadi, Сади
Greek given name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom
Also written Σαδιέ
Russian given name8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Also written Садие, Сэди, Садіе

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

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

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).

How to address them

InformalHi Sadie,

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

65 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.

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. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Australia (Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM), 2023), Kosovo (ASK Kosovo) and Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024), among others.
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?: In the United States, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Sadie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sadie.
Where is Sadie most common?: Sadie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying 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 the United States, Sadie is the 999th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Sadie?: In English /ˈseɪdi/ (Wiktionary).

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Query this name via API

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The 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 2026-10-13 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 999th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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