Meaning not yet researched.
Sade: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #213 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #213 in 1986; #2,058 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Sade in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,058 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #213.
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Sade: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 girls in 2025. Peak: #213 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 1,245 (1986).
In 2025, 92 US girls were named Sade, making it the 2,058th most common girls’ name of the year, up 112 places from #2,170 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 88 girls named Sade in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #213, reached in 1986. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,245. For comparison, it was #2,616 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sade in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 401 babies. In all, 10,102 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,528 babies named Sade.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 779 US girls were named Sade; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,470 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sade ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,381 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Said (3,166 babies since 1880), Saad (2,476 babies since 1880), Saeed (1,878 babies since 1880) and Zade (1,766 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sayde, Sayed and Zayde are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sayde (725), Sayed (688), Zayde (532), Saud (511), Zaide (313), Saed (216), Saide (143), Saied (52), Sayd (35), Zad (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sade in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,381 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,631 | #1,931 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,738 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,924 | #2,958 |
| Texas | 11 | #2,017 | #3,191 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,058 | 8 | #9,548 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,170 | 6 | #12,094 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,224 | 9 | #8,799 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,100 | 6 | #11,877 |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,627 | 6 | #11,878 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 2015 | 69 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,644 | 6 | #11,854 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2009 | 128 | #1,724 | 6 | #12,198 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 2007 | 146 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 2004 | 213 | #1,081 | 5 | #12,872 |
| 2003 | 206 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 2002 | 245 | #914 | — | — |
| 2001 | 300 | #788 | — | — |
| 2000 | 201 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,082 | 5 | #11,286 |
| 1998 | 233 | #907 | — | — |
| 1997 | 239 | #856 | — | — |
| 1996 | 283 | #748 | — | — |
| 1995 | 374 | #601 | — | — |
| 1994 | 374 | #601 | — | — |
| 1993 | 536 | #475 | 5 | #9,899 |
| 1992 | 342 | #654 | — | — |
| 1991 | 321 | #674 | 5 | #9,356 |
| 1990 | 407 | #571 | — | — |
| 1989 | 593 | #417 | 17 | #3,423 |
| 1988 | 616 | #390 | 6 | #7,093 |
| 1987 | 627 | #372 | 9 | #4,889 |
| 1986 | 1,245 | #213 | 14 | #3,408 |
| 1985 | 393 | #513 | 8 | #5,062 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).