Sadie

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Sadie is ranked 57th among girls in 2024 (3,729 births). Its best rank was 46th, in 2014.

Rank in 2024: #57up 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3,7290.23% of girls
Peak year: 20144,870 births
Best rank: #46in 2014
Since 1880: 145,487people given the name

Babies named Sadie, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

145,487 girls have been named Sadie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 4,870 births — 0.27% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 46 → 57).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2010s alone account for 25%. It has spent 136 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Sadie
1880s	4,915
1890s	7,398
1900s	7,461
1910s	12,388
1920s	10,846
1930s	6,298
1940s	4,168
1950s	2,437
1960s	1,131
1970s	1,753
1980s	3,162
1990s	8,580
2000s	21,325
2010s	36,577
2020s	17,048

In 2014, its biggest year

Sadie was the 46th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Sadie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.