Sadie Girl
How popular is Sadie?
#50 girl name in 2025
4,168 baby girls were named Sadie in the US in 2025, making it the 50th most popular girl name.
Sadie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #50 for girls (▲ 7 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 4,168 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-12% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #52 in 2015, #78 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2014 (4,871 girls) |
| Highest rank | #46 in 2014 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sadie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sadie family of names ranked #68 for girls in 2025 (#79 the year before), with 4,243 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sadie | 4,168 | 98% |
| Saydee | 35 | 1% |
| Sadee | 7 | 0% |
| Saydie | 8 | 0% |
| Sadi | 7 | 0% |
| Saydi | 5 | 0% |
| Sadey | 8 | 0% |
| Saidee | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sadie is most popular
Babies named Sadie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Wyoming: 7.5 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Vermont: 6.6 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- West Virginia: 6.0 per 1,000 (158 girls)
- Alaska: 5.3 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Mississippi: 5.0 per 1,000 (234 girls)
Sadie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 4,915 | #67 |
| 1890s | 7,398 | #69 |
| 1900s | 7,461 | #84 |
| 1910s | 12,388 | #100 |
| 1920s | 10,846 | #174 |
| 1930s | 6,298 | #214 |
| 1940s | 4,168 | #271 |
| 1950s | 2,437 | #457 |
| 1960s | 1,131 | #832 |
| 1970s | 1,754 | #634 |
| 1980s | 3,162 | #496 |
| 1990s | 8,580 | #273 |
| 2000s | 21,328 | #107 |
| 2010s | 36,582 | #46 |
| 2020s | 21,233 | #50 |
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Questions
- Is Sadie a boy or girl name?
- Sadie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sadie were girls.
- How popular is the name Sadie?
- 4,168 baby girls were named Sadie in the US in 2025, making it the 50th most popular girl name.
- When was Sadie most popular?
- Sadie peaked in 2014, when 4,871 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #46 in 2014.
- How many people are named Sadie?
- 149,922 babies have been named Sadie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 99,591 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 13.
- Where is Sadie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sadie was most common in Wyoming, at 7.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.