Sadaf — #4925 US girls' name
640 babies named Sadaf in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 72% of names given to girls today.
27% of everyone ever named Sadaf was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Sadaf in 2024 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sadaf
The Social Security Administration has registered 640 babies named Sadaf between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sadaf currently holds the #4925 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sadaf performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 170 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sadaf shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 123 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Sadaf in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sadaf in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 640 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sadaf at a glance
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Current rank
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Sadaf popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1976
- Peak year (2024)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
Currently ranks #4925 among girls.
640 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2024 with 27 births in a single year.
Sadaf by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 170 births that decade — 27% of Sadaf's all-time total
Sadaf decade highlights
- Peak decade 170 births
- Runner-up 132 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Sadaf's strongest decade
170 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Sadaf by state
Where Sadaf concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 123 | 19.2% |
| #2 | New York | | 6 | 0.9% |
| #3 | Virginia | | 6 | 0.9% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #5 | Texas | | 5 | 0.8% |
123 of 640 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 19.2% of nationwide
- New York 0.9% of nationwide
- Virginia 0.9% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.8% of nationwide
- Texas 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 19.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.