Sada
Sada was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,257 among girls’ names; 1,308 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sada by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sada?
#8,257 among girls’ names, 2025
Sada rose from #10,025 in 2015 to #8,257 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 8.1 per million.
81 babies in 1986, the peak
Sada peaked in 1986, when 81 girls were given it, #1,521 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,257 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,448 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,154 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,311 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,941 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,133 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,653 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,424 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,456 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,088 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,025 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,769 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,683 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,713 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,079 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,533 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,017 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,026 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,082 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,746 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,158 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,186 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,730 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,250 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,435 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,855 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,310 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,642 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,552 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,416 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,919 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,749 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,196 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,785 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,941 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,356 | 27.1 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,353 | 26.4 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,262 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,521 | 47.2 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,470 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,281 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,762 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,979 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,829 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,273 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,341 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,259 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,805 | 7.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,782 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,570 | 3.2 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,268 | 5.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,736 | 6.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,747 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,148 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,240 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,869 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,143 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,895 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,318 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,213 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,453 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,975 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,374 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,089 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,612 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,122 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,889 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,182 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,494 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,528 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,999 | 9.6 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,125 | 9.6 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,162 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,364 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,584 | 25.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,490 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,920 | 20.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,130 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,063 | 45.4 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,906 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,184 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,017 | 47.2 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,485 | 27.1 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,285 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,565 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,121 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,084 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,253 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 9 | #995 | 48.5 |
| 1890 | 10 | #931 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 13 | #751 | 72.9 |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,023 | 44.8 |
| 1886 | 10 | #769 | 69.2 |
| 1884 | 8 | #843 | 62.0 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,012 | 46.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #823 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sada a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sada has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sada: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sada, and how old are they?
An estimated 919 Americans named Sada and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 21 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,041 people named Sada (959 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 894 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 167,085 babies since 1880, Sada is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 4,355 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sada
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sada and names like it
- Compare Sada and SadieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSada peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sada since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Sada.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sada alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.