In 2025, 85 US girls were named Zadie, making it the 2,193rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 423 places from #1,770 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 115 girls named Zadie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #538, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 174, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,635 in 2015 and #3,421 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zadie in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 11 babies. In all, 3,615 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,157 babies named Zadie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,379 US girls were named Zadie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 174. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zadie ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,357 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sadie (149,922 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaidee, Zaydee and Zaydi are summarised on this page.